KeePass Password Safe - Windows and BlackBerry
For a while now I’ve been using a work-supplied Windows Mobile 6 PDA (an O2 xda Orbit). Nice device.
Well, recently our company migrated to BlackBerry devices, and although I’ve managed to get most of the functionality that my xda Orbit had (in terms of software applications), I’ve missed having something equivalent to Illium’s eWallet digital wallet with desktop and PDA synchronisation. I did have an option of buying something like FlexWallet but I wanted to wait until “eWallet for BlackBerry” was released (which is actually a conversion of FlexWallet!).
“eWallet for BlackBerry” was announced months ago and the release date was originally April 2008 and now it’s end of July 2008. I’ve waited and waited but I couldn’t wait anymore as I’m about to go abroad and needed to take my encrypted data with me on my BlackBerry. But I found the perfect solution yesterday and am now all up and running. What was the solution? Simple, really…“KeePass Password Safe” and “KeePass for BlackBerry”.
With the Windows version of “KeePass Password Safe” and using an import plugin, I was able to import eWallet into “KeePass Password Safe”. And for the BlackBerry, I downloaded “KeePass for BlackBerry”.
I’ve now got my Windows-based “KeePass Password Safe” and “KeePass for BlackBerry” synchronised with each other. The encryptions offered are AES (Rijndael) and TwoFish for the database and an SHA-256 password hash. There are a bunch of other features built-in and a number of plugins available that really make KeePass stand out from the crowd.
The best thing about this solution? It’s FREE!
Highly recommended.
(Running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1, and BlackBerry OS v4.2.2.181)
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