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KeePass 2.22

Developer: Dominik Reichl
Last updated: April 5, 2013
License: Freeware
OS Support: Windows (all)
File Size: 2.4 MB
Downloads: 1,203
∟ Last week: 2
User Rating: 3.7 / 5    (3 votes)

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Light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your website's FTP password, online passwords (like website member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem... A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, website, etc. Unimaginable.

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). For more information, see the features page.

Is it really free?

Yes, KeePass is really free, and more than that: it is open source (OSI certified). You can have a look at its full source and check whether the encryption algorithms are implemented correctly.

What's New:

New Features:

  • When the option for remembering key sources is enabled, KeePass now also remembers whether the user account is required.
  • Added 'View' -> 'Grouping in Entry List' menu.
  • Added 'Close active database' trigger action.
  • Added '-ioiscomplete' command line option, which tells KeePass that the path and file system credentials are complete (the 'Open URL' dialog will not be displayed then).
  • Added support for importing SafeWallet XML files (3.0.4 and 3.0.5).
  • Added support for importing TurboPasswords 5.0.1 CSV files.
  • LastPass CSV importer: added support for group trees.
  • Alle meine Passworte XML importer: added support for custom fields and group names with special characters.
  • Password Safe XML importer: added support for the e-mail field.
  • Added 'Help' button in the generic CSV importer dialog.
  • Added workaround for .NET bug 642188; top visible list view items are now remembered in details view with groups enabled.
  • Added workaround for Mono form title bar text update bug (which e.g. caused bug 801414).

Improvements / Changes:

  • After closing a character picking dialog, KeePass now explicitly activates the previous window.
  • Improved behavior when cancelling the icon picker dialog.
  • Main window activation redirection now works with all KeePass dialogs automatically.
  • The window state of the current database is now remembered before opening another database.
  • Previous parameters are now discarded when switching between different trigger event/condition/action types.
  • Unified separators in group paths.
  • The UI state is now updated after adding an entry and clicking an entry reference link in the entry view.
  • The '-entry-url-open' command line option now searches for matching entries in all open databases.
  • Improved database context determination when opening an URL.
  • Added support for special values in date/time fields imported from KeePass 1.x.
  • Improved HTML entity decoding (support for more entities and CDATA sections, improved performance, ...).
  • RoboForm HTML importer: URLs are converted to lower-case now and support for a special order rotation of attributes has been added.
  • Removed Password Gorilla CSV importer; users should use the generic CSV importer (which can import more data than the old specialized CSV importer).
  • Improved file discoveries.
  • Improved test form entry auto-type window definition.
  • In the MSI package, the version is now included in the product name.
  • Native key transformation library: replaced Boost threads by Windows API threads (because Boost threads can result in crashes on restricted Windows 7 x64 systems).
  • Various UI improvements.
  • Various code optimizations.
  • Minor other improvements.

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