KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords securely. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database.
The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms. A password database consists of only one file that can be transferred from one computer to another easily.
KeePass supports the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES, Rijndael) and the Twofish algorithm to encrypt its password databases.
Both of these ciphers are regarded as being very secure. AES e.g. became effective as a U.S. Federal government standard and is approved by the National Security Agency (NSA) for top secret information.
KeePass All Features
KeePass makes use of the frequent CSV export format of varied password safes like Password Keeper and Password Agent. Exports from these programs might be simply imported to your KeePass databases. The password list might be exported to formats like TXT, HTML, XML, and CSV.
The application has a portable edition: you may carry it on a USB stick and run it on Windows systems without installation.
Strong Security
- KeePass supports the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES, Rijndael) and the Twofish algorithm to encrypt its password databases. Both of those ciphers are thought to be very safe. AES e.g. grew to become efficient as a U.S. Federal authorities standard and is authorized by the National Security Agency (NSA) for high secret information.
- The full database is encrypted, not solely the password fields. So, your user names, notes, etc. are encrypted, too.
- SHA-256 is used to hash the master key components. SHA-256 is a 256-bit cryptographically safe one-way hash function. No assaults are recognized but towards SHA-256. The output is remodeled using a key derivation function.
- Protection towards dictionary and guessing assaults: by remodeling the master key part hash using a key derivation function (AES-KDF, Argon2, …), dictionary and guessing assaults might be made more durable.
- Process memory protection: your passwords are encrypted while KeePass is running, so even when the operating system dumps the KeePass process to disk, your passwords aren’t revealed.
- [2.x] Protected in-memory streams: when loading the interior XML format, passwords are encrypted using a session key.
- Security-enhanced password edit controls: KeePass is the primary password manager with security-enhanced password edit controls. None of the available password edit control spies work towards these controls. The passwords entered in these controls aren’t even seen within the process memory of KeePass.
- The master key dialog might be proven on a safe desktop, on which just about no keylogger works. Auto-Type might be protected towards keyloggers, too.
Changes in KeePass 2.55 :
New Features:
- Added the ‘Compare Entries’ command (in the main menu ‘Entry’ → ‘Compare’), which compares the two selected entries in the main entry list.
- Added ‘Mark Entry for Comparison’ and ‘Compare Entry with Marked Entry’ commands (in the main menu ‘Entry’ → ‘Compare’); these two commands support comparing two entries that are stored in different databases (opened in tabs).
- Report dialogs can now be closed by pressing the ESC key.
- Added option ‘Show warning when the key transformation settings are weak’ (in ‘Tools’ → ‘Options’ → tab ‘Security’, turned on by default).
- The options in the entry/group duplication dialog are remembered now.
- The options in the HTML export/print dialog are remembered now.
- In dialogs that have a ‘Do not show this dialog again’ option and multiple commands, the command that will always be used when turning on the option is now mentioned in the dialog.
- Added a ‘More information’ link in the dialog displayed when KeePass automatically disables enforcement-requiring items.
- Added {NEWPASSWORD:/#/P/O/} placeholder, which generates a new password for the current entry using the specified pattern P and the option(s) O.
- Added accessible names for some controls (custom keystroke sequence edit control in the auto-type item dialog, filter edit control in report dialogs, and a few controls in the password generator dialog; if the option ‘Optimize for screen reader’ is turned on).
- Added the ‘MasterKeyExpiryForce’ configuration setting.
- It enhanced the Google Chrome passwords CSV import module to support the new format.
- Enhanced mSecure CSV import module to support the new format.
- Enhanced 1Password 1PUX import module to support the new password field/type.
Improvements:
- The toolbar in report dialogs is now a tab stop.
- The increased default number of AES-KDF iterations.
- Improved syntax highlighting for {CLIPBOARD-SET:…} placeholders (in the auto-type item editing dialog).
- The node mode of the configuration element ‘/Configuration/Meta/PreferUserConfiguration’ is now ‘None’ by default.
- Improved INI loading performance.
- Improved data size formatting.
- Renamed value columns/commands in the history entry comparison dialog from ‘A’/’B’ to ‘1’/’2′.
- Improved process memory protection of history entry comparisons.
- Improved process memory protection of ‘CryptoRandomStream’ objects.
- Improved thread safety of process memory protection on Unix-like systems.
- The MSI file is now built using Visual Studio 2022.
- Various UI text improvements.
- Various code optimizations.
- Minor other improvements.
Bugfixes:
- Searches using an XPath expression involving history entries now always regard all history entries.
- KeePass now does not crash anymore when a plugin tries to upload a file to a server asynchronously.
Changes in KeePass 1.41 Classic:
New Features:
- Added {EDGE} placeholder, which is replaced by the executable path of the new (Chromium-based) Microsoft Edge, if installed.
- The {FIREFOX} placeholder now supports detecting the Microsoft Store version of Firefox (in addition to the regular versions).
- When trying to rearrange entries while automatic sorting is activated, KeePass now asks whether to deactivate automatic sorting.
- Added border for headings in HTML exports/printouts.
- Added horizontal entry separator lines in HTML exports/printouts.
Improvements:
- Improved item separation in the entry details view.
- When moving an entry fails, the last access time of the entry is not updated anymore.
- Improved HTML generation for HTML exports/printouts.
- Improved fonts used when printing or exporting to HTML.
- HTML exports/printouts: improved encoding of white-space characters in passwords.
- Reordered fields/columns in exports for improved consistency.
- We were upgraded to Boost Libraries version 1.81.0.
- Various code optimizations.
- Minor other improvements.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
Size: 4.18 MB
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