KeePass 2.52 / KeePass 1.40.1 Classic

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KeePass is a free open-source password manager, that lets you handle your passwords in a safe approach. You can put all of your passwords in a single database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you solely have to recollect one single master password or choose the important thing file to unlock the entire database.

The databases are encrypted using the perfect and most safe encryption algorithms. A password database consists of just one file that may be transferred from one computer to a different simply.

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.

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 varied 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 that features 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 2.52 :

New Features:

Added ‘Copy Initial Password’ command in the tools menu of the entry dialog; it copies (to the clipboard) the password that was current when the dialog was opened.
When multiple entries are selected (containing at least one attachment), the number of attachments is now displayed in the ‘Attachments’ submenu of the entry menu.
Added option ‘Alt. item background color’ (supporting the states ‘Off’, ‘On, default color’, and ‘On, custom color’); this combines the previous two options ‘Use alternating item background colors’ and ‘Custom alt. item color’.
Comment placeholders ({C:…}) may now contain balanced braces.
In the auto-type entry selection dialog, values in the ‘Sequence – Comments’ column are dereferenced now.
The time when the password of an entry was last changed is now displayed in the entry dialog on the ‘History’ tab page.
The {FIREFOX} placeholder and the ‘URL(s)’ menu (‘Open with …’ commands) now support detecting the Microsoft Store version of Firefox (in addition to the regular versions).
Added support for importing 1Password 8.7 1PUX files.
Added support for importing Key Folder 1.22 XML files.
Sticky Password XML import: added support for importing groups and expiry dates.
Steganos Password Manager CSV import: added support for the new encoding of double quotes.
Bitwarden JSON import: time-based one-time password generator settings are converted automatically now.
KeePass now checks the ‘KeePass.exe.config’ file and shows a warning message when finding a problem.
For development builds added command for showing GC information.
Plugins can now load the header of a database file more easily.
Plugins can now subscribe to a master key change event.
TrlUtil: added a workaround for the .NET tab control focus bug.

Improvements:

Moved the command ‘Save Attached File(s) To’ into the ‘Attachments’ submenu of the entry menu and renamed it to ‘Save File(s) To’.
The command for saving attached files is now available only if at least one of the selected entries has at least one attachment.
The {APPACTIVATE …} auto-type command now ignores the options ‘Cancel auto-type when the target window changes and ‘Cancel auto-type when the target window title changes.
{APPACTIVATE …} auto-type command: if the specified window does not exist or cannot be focused, auto-type is aborted now.
Unified creation of fields with indices.
Improved database modification state and UI updating after imports/synchronizations.
In the master key creation/prompt dialogs, the [OK] button is now disabled when checking the ‘Key file/provider’ check box and selecting ‘(None)’ in the combo box.
Improved drop-down menu width adjustment for certain combo boxes in the options dialog.
Improved hashing performance of protected binaries, UUIDs, …
Performance improvements related to empty arrays.
Improved Mono framework version detection.
TrlUtil: improved preview dialog update performance.
Various UI text improvements.
Various code optimizations.
Minor other improvements.

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug that caused a minimized main window to be restored to a normal window instead of a maximized window in certain situations.
The ‘Help’ menu item in the entry dialog and the ‘Help’ button in the entry string field dialog now open the correct help sections.

Changes in KeePass 1.40.1 Classic:

Added workaround for Wine bug 52457.
Increased Authenticode certificate key length.
Various CHM/help improvements.
Upgraded to Boost libraries version 1.79.0.
Upgraded installer.
Minor other improvements.