Comments on: Password Managers for OS X http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/ Technology, Life and other stuff that come along... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:52:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Password management : MikeBach.org » Blog http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-182087 Password management : MikeBach.org » Blog Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:31:45 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-182087 [...] After seeing a post on Password Managers for OS X, I decided to share my technique. I’m not sure where I found this idea, but it isn’t something I could have thought of on my own. [...] [...] After seeing a post on Password Managers for OS X, I decided to share my technique. I’m not sure where I found this idea, but it isn’t something I could have thought of on my own. [...]

]]> By: Online Password Managers - Nirlog.com - Technology, Life and other stuff that come along… http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-66465 Online Password Managers - Nirlog.com - Technology, Life and other stuff that come along… Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:48:21 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-66465 [...] After switching to a mac, I tried many desktop password managers, and had written about Password Managers for OS X, which got a lot of attention. It’s needless to mention the importance of using a password manager since we use passwords to protect almost everything digital, and we’ve so many of them today. Currently we trust most of our private data like, emails, bookmarks, documents, spreadsheets and calendar events to some online providers like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft. So, how about your secrets and passwords stored online, somewhere in the cloud? I know what your immediate response is, passwords? No way I’m going to store my passwords online! But you might want to give a second thought because now the technology is secure enough. Thanks to Host-Proof Hosting. If the owners of the servers wanted to mess around with your information, or even if the server gets hacked, they won’t be able to recover your data. In Host-Proof Hosting the sensitive data is always transmitted to the server in encrypted from using a pass-phrase. The good thing is that, this pass-phrase is never transmitted to or stored in the server. The server can never access the stored data in it’s plain form. All the encryption and decryption takes place in the client side, inside the browser. This is basically a “Zero-Knowledge” web application, where the provider knows nothing about your actual data. * User enters pass-phrase to begin using the system. Browser retains the pass-phrase as a global variable. * User requests a list of all data belonging to him. * For each record, the system stores the associated user ID in plain-text, the record ID in plain form, and the record content only in encrypted form. (The message content is one or more database columns, each encrypted.) Thus, system is able to return a list of record IDs for this user. * User selects one of the record IDs. * System checks that this user ID is associated with the record ID, and returns the corresponding message content. * Browser uses stored pass-phrase to decrypt the contents. [...] [...] After switching to a mac, I tried many desktop password managers, and had written about Password Managers for OS X, which got a lot of attention. It’s needless to mention the importance of using a password manager since we use passwords to protect almost everything digital, and we’ve so many of them today. Currently we trust most of our private data like, emails, bookmarks, documents, spreadsheets and calendar events to some online providers like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft. So, how about your secrets and passwords stored online, somewhere in the cloud? I know what your immediate response is, passwords? No way I’m going to store my passwords online! But you might want to give a second thought because now the technology is secure enough. Thanks to Host-Proof Hosting. If the owners of the servers wanted to mess around with your information, or even if the server gets hacked, they won’t be able to recover your data. In Host-Proof Hosting the sensitive data is always transmitted to the server in encrypted from using a pass-phrase. The good thing is that, this pass-phrase is never transmitted to or stored in the server. The server can never access the stored data in it’s plain form. All the encryption and decryption takes place in the client side, inside the browser. This is basically a “Zero-Knowledge” web application, where the provider knows nothing about your actual data. * User enters pass-phrase to begin using the system. Browser retains the pass-phrase as a global variable. * User requests a list of all data belonging to him. * For each record, the system stores the associated user ID in plain-text, the record ID in plain form, and the record content only in encrypted form. (The message content is one or more database columns, each encrypted.) Thus, system is able to return a list of record IDs for this user. * User selects one of the record IDs. * System checks that this user ID is associated with the record ID, and returns the corresponding message content. * Browser uses stored pass-phrase to decrypt the contents. [...]

]]> By: Nirlog.com » Blog Archive » OS X Applications for System and Network Administrators http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-4288 Nirlog.com » Blog Archive » OS X Applications for System and Network Administrators Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:56:44 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-4288 [...] KeePassXKeePassX is the OS X port of the Windows password manager, KeePass. It uses a database format that is compatible with KeePass Password Safe. This means my colleagues can use windows and I can use Mac or Linux to open and edit the same password database file. OS X has a built-in password manager called KeyChain, which is a perfect tool for a single user but for system and network admins it lacks some major feature like sharing the passwords with other administrators. You can check the password manager roundup for more. [...] [...] KeePassXKeePassX is the OS X port of the Windows password manager, KeePass. It uses a database format that is compatible with KeePass Password Safe. This means my colleagues can use windows and I can use Mac or Linux to open and edit the same password database file. OS X has a built-in password manager called KeyChain, which is a perfect tool for a single user but for system and network admins it lacks some major feature like sharing the passwords with other administrators. You can check the password manager roundup for more. [...]

]]> By: pdog http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-2466 pdog Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:08:39 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-2466 CiphSafe is another good one for personal use. http://ciphsafe.sourceforge.net/ CiphSafe is another good one for personal use.

http://ciphsafe.sourceforge.net/

]]> By: sjk http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-2441 sjk Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:12:53 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-2441 SplashID Desktop definitely doesn't require Classic; I've run it natively on OS X (PPC systems, like Histrionic) for almost five years. But it still looks/feels like a Classic app. I doubt that'll ever change since SplashData has shown no interest in providing anything more than minor maintenance updates for several years. I stopped submitting requests when its future development potential looked grim. To its credit, SplashID and synching has always worked flawlessly for me with a +500 entry (and growing) database. Such highly consistent reliability for an app in this category makes it easier to forgive the UI shortcomings. And I still rely on the Palm synching, which eliminates every alternative with a nicer *looking* OS X UI although every one I've tested (for curiosity's sake) has had some feature and/or usability limitation that I'm able to work around in SplashID. I'm satisfied using Keychain Access for OS X-only secure data. SplashID Desktop definitely doesn’t require Classic; I’ve run it natively on OS X (PPC systems, like Histrionic) for almost five years. But it still looks/feels like a Classic app. I doubt that’ll ever change since SplashData has shown no interest in providing anything more than minor maintenance updates for several years. I stopped submitting requests when its future development potential looked grim.

To its credit, SplashID and synching has always worked flawlessly for me with a +500 entry (and growing) database. Such highly consistent reliability for an app in this category makes it easier to forgive the UI shortcomings. And I still rely on the Palm synching, which eliminates every alternative with a nicer *looking* OS X UI although every one I’ve tested (for curiosity’s sake) has had some feature and/or usability limitation that I’m able to work around in SplashID. I’m satisfied using Keychain Access for OS X-only secure data.

]]> By: Histrionic http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-2391 Histrionic Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:47:31 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-2391 I'm running SplashID perfectly fine on Mac OS X without Classic, albeit on a PowerPC system. I use it to sync with a Treo 650, using Mark/Space's Missing Sync (replacement for Palm HotSync). In fact, I just upgraded to a newer edition not too long ago, but both it and my previous version run on Mac OS X natively. One odd bit about their installer is that it has an icon that greatly resembles a low-res Classic icon for Installer VISE--rather than the current Installer VISE icon. And it doesn't use the Apple Installer that's part of Mac OS X. I’m running SplashID perfectly fine on Mac OS X without Classic, albeit on a PowerPC system. I use it to sync with a Treo 650, using Mark/Space’s Missing Sync (replacement for Palm HotSync). In fact, I just upgraded to a newer edition not too long ago, but both it and my previous version run on Mac OS X natively.

One odd bit about their installer is that it has an icon that greatly resembles a low-res Classic icon for Installer VISE–rather than the current Installer VISE icon. And it doesn’t use the Apple Installer that’s part of Mac OS X.

]]> By: Andy Fowler http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-2386 Andy Fowler Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:01:51 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-2386 Thanks for the review - I switched to a Mac a few months ago, and I've been putting off choosing a wallet program. I used eWallet on Windows and my Treo 650, and I loved it, and was heartbroken to learn that they didn't make a Mac version. Unfortunately, many of these programs are extremely out of date. Passwords Plus is not a Universal binary, and SplashID requires Classic!! So I can't even run SplashID on my MBP, and I'm a little frustrated that Passwords Plus will be using Rosetta all the time. Oh well, hopefully Mark/Space or somebody like that will step up with something nice. Thanks for the review – I switched to a Mac a few months ago, and I’ve been putting off choosing a wallet program. I used eWallet on Windows and my Treo 650, and I loved it, and was heartbroken to learn that they didn’t make a Mac version. Unfortunately, many of these programs are extremely out of date. Passwords Plus is not a Universal binary, and SplashID requires Classic!! So I can’t even run SplashID on my MBP, and I’m a little frustrated that Passwords Plus will be using Rosetta all the time. Oh well, hopefully Mark/Space or somebody like that will step up with something nice.

]]> By: Dave’s Place » Great roundup of mac password storage software http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-2384 Dave’s Place » Great roundup of mac password storage software Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:49:15 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-2384 [...] I originally spotted this at TUAW - it’s a great roundup of all the available password storage software for Mac OSX. [...] [...] I originally spotted this at TUAW – it’s a great roundup of all the available password storage software for Mac OSX. [...]

]]> By: Thomas http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-2382 Thomas Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:42:02 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-2382 I use Secret Book[1] and Little Secret.[2] [1] http://www.i-graph.com/?q=node/1 [2] http://www.mani.de/en/software/macosx/littlesecrets/index.html I use Secret Book[1] and Little Secret.[2]

[1] http://www.i-graph.com/?q=node/1
[2] http://www.mani.de/en/software/macosx/littlesecrets/index.html

]]> By: David http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-2381 David Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:28:16 +0000 http://nirlog.com/2006/07/19/password-managers-for-os-x/#comment-2381 i have to chime in for SplashID... since i take my PalmOS PDA everywhere with me, it's absolutely indispensable to have my password list with me, synced up with my Mac. i have to chime in for SplashID… since i take my PalmOS PDA everywhere with me, it’s absolutely indispensable to have my password list with me, synced up with my Mac.

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