Tuesday, March 07, 2006 

Free Password Manager

If you're like me then you have to remember a really ridiculous number of passwords. Between several email accounts, multiple web sites, banks, managed domains, and network passwords I have finally reached my memory capacity. My RAM is full and I have no more expansion slots without a motherboard replacement, which is out of the question at this point.

I guess my biggest problem is that I don't use the same username and password for everything. I'm too paranoid about identity theft after reading all of the techie resources that I peruse daily.

That said, here is a cool utility that I came across on Sourceforge that is, so far, working well for me as a password manager. It is an award winning password manager called KeePass Password Safe.

It is very simple to use and allows you to organize your passwords into useful groups. It stores all of your sensitive information in an encrypted database. Of course this database is password protected so you'll have to commit at least one password to memory.

Coolest thing about this is that it is free/open-source software.

Enjoy.