Greetings, all! Thanks for dropping by my new blog. I hope to keep you coming back for useful information, thoughtful musings and neat (and free) tools!Today, I offer you Password Vault, my own home-grown password management utility. Yes, I know this is hardly a novel concept, but I hope that you will see that the approach I've taken makes my app very approachable to the most novice of users while still maintaining stellar data protection.
The backstory is that my wife & I were trying to come up with a way to manage the various account credentials for the websites we log on to for managing bills, healthcare, etc. Neither of us wanted to take the risk of using a universal password or maintaining a clear text spreadsheet.
The result was the creation of Password Vault. I designed Password Vault to be a secure repository for account credentials. The credentials are stored in an encrypted text file. After enrollment, you log into the application using a universal password. Once logged in, the app doesn't bring any of your passwords into memory until you click a button to copy it to your clipboard. I also included a feature which launches the website you specified for a given account as well as copying the password.
A feature that I think is unique for this type of tool is the "Forgot Password" utility. During enrollment, the user is prompted to answer 3 security questions (which they can select from a drop-down). If the password is ever forgotten, the encrypted data can still be recovered if the security answers are entered.
Password Vault is now in it's fourth release. The strength of the encryption has improved immensely since I originally began this project. Below, I am linking to the binaries (Windows only) as well as the source code (written in C#). Please give it a try and comment!
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