Passwordstate - A secure password manager

AssociatedLSando75 @ clickstudios.com.au on 26/08/2016 - 14:45
Last edited 26/08/2016 - 15:32 by 1 other user

Hi All,

My first post here in these forums, as I noticed it has a free software section. Thought I'd take the opportunity to plug the software I support for a living, which is called Passwordstate. It's a free secure Password Manager, designed for Windows which can be used at home but probably more suitable for small to large businesses. We're an Adelaide based company called Click Studios, and have been around for ~10 years.

Website: https://www.clickstudios.com.au

Download: https://www.clickstudios.com.au/download-password-manager.aspx

High Level Overview of the Software's Capabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZogK-E08tq0

User Interface Overview Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7cydgp-wVQ

Most of our business does come from US and Europe, so it would be nice to get some Aussie users. It is genuinely free for 5 users - if you are a small business or personal user, you will never need to pay a cent.

All instructions on how to set up come with the download, but you are welcome to contact us on [email protected] if you have any questions. I hope I'm not breaking any rules by posting this here, but the more people that use this even if it is for free is better for my company.

All the best.
Lee.

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  Savas on 26/08/2016 - 19:55

  +1

  Cheers OP

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  BookerDeWitt on 26/08/2016 - 21:25

  +2

  Thanks for the heads-up. Any reason to migrate to this from Keypass?

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  Dacs on 27/08/2016 - 06:31

  A password manager is something that you really want to know is trustworthy and always will be. One of the major advantages of Keepass is that it's open source. What's the deal with your PW manager?

  Keepass also has an active community supporting it, it's available on a wide range of devices and OSs, has evolved to have a lot of useful features and capabilities, and it's got useful plugins.

  What are the advantages of Passwordstate?

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  AssociatedSando75 @ clickstudios.com.au on 27/08/2016 - 08:02

  Hi all. Passwordstate has many advantages over KeePass, but it really depends on what your requirements are. Essentially KeePass is a secure vault, with limited sharing capabilities - and when you do share, there is no real accountability of who's access what, and who's changing passwords. Like I said though, it depends on your requirements as to whether this is important for you or not. Some other features of Passwordstate are:

  • Many two-factor authentication options
  • True role-based access with complete visibility into who's doing what
  • Perform password resets on just about all systems
  • Browser Extensions for form filling web sites
  • Mobile Client
  • Remote Session Launcher for automatically logging into Hosts, direct from the UI
  • Discover accounts on your network
  • Manage service accounts
  • An API

  Full details can be found under the Features menu on our web site at https://www.clickstudios.com.au.

  In terms of trust worthy, we've been through multiple external penetration testing, and some by very large US companies - if they didn't trust our software, they certainly wouldn't purchase it. While we also like open source software, if someone got hold of your KeePass database file, they could get access to your passwords - they have the source code to do whatever they want.

  Happy to answer any more questions if you have them.

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    Dacs on 27/08/2016 - 08:04

    +1

    Interesting. Thanks for the good reply.

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    Dacs on 27/08/2016 - 08:31

    if someone got hold of your KeePass database file, they could get access to your passwords - they have the source code to do whatever they want.

    What do you mean?
    The Keepass database is encrypted with AES-256. Unless someone got hold of the database file AND the master password there's no way they could access the psaswords. The source code won't help them one bit.

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      AssociatedSando75 @ clickstudios.com.au on 27/08/2016 - 09:14

      We may be wrong with this - is all the encrypted data salted with the master password, or does the master password just allow you to authenticate to get into KeePass? if it's not doing salting, then having the source code will allow you to easily bypass the initial authentication screen.

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      AssociatedSando75 @ clickstudios.com.au on 27/08/2016 - 09:21

      +1

      Looks like I was wrong about this - my apologies. Looks like there is salting of the encrypted data as well - http://keepass.info/help/base/security.html

      At least this is what I understand from this page.

      I guess the risk with this is that if you forget your master password, you no longer have access to your passwords. We have an Emergency Access (break glass) feature which requires a master password, and we have customers all the time forgetting this password. Fortunately we can help them recover and reset it, and then they can re-encrypt all their data afterwards - both with new encryption and hashing keys.

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  AssociatedSando75 @ clickstudios.com.au on 27/08/2016 - 08:26

  You're welcome Dacs - thanks.