What pwd managers, portable on USB stick, can you suggest, or not?
Criteria:
* Security.
I'd guess, for any application that's open source one can take just the
encryption algorithm and turn it into a brute force attack. So with a
good(time consuming) algorithm, and a long and wise master password time
tends to be on your site.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
(To clarify, I am not asking for the perfect solution that would keep out
the NSA -- just one that discourages potential identity thefts/intruders
who may find my lost USB stick)
* Portability.
To use such application on different platforms (mainly x86, no Mac) I
can envision at least two ways of doing it:
a) application written in platform independent languages (java, python, tk,...)
b) run some small Linux distro through virtualization off that USB stick.
I have experimented with QEMU and DSL (DamnSmallLinux) and Puppy Linux.
Puppy Linux comes with Gpasman as password manager. It got some good
reviews, but that was years ago (latest version/developer's post is from
2004)
* Ability to freely choose filename and extension of encrypted data, and
to navigate to those w/o leaving an obvious trace, e.g. I played with a
java based application that would memorize path/filename in a drop-down
menu the next time I ran it. It's convenient, but not good for a password
manager.
* Ability to import/export data in clear text
If I decide to test or use a new password manager I'd like to get the
data in and out w/o re-typing, e.g. as .csv or TAB delimited text, or whatever.
Is that unreasonable, and what did I miss ?
- Horst
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