On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, horst wrote: > 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)
Any distro which can mount an encrypted fs would do it. You then boot that distro, mount the encrypted fs, and open a text file where you store your passwords. Nicolas _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
