| | | Lastpass and 1Password seem to be two of the main password managers.
I don't have experience with either, but one feature of 1Password by AgileBits that has some appeal for me is that they don't store your passwords, but instead your data is encrypted on your own devices.
Edit: 1Password does have a Pro version that's not free.
- 1Password is not a service that you connect to or log in to. Instead it works entirely by keeping your data encrypted and stored on your devices. We have none of your data in any form. This has two big benefits:
- Because we have none of your data we can't lose, use, or abuse it, even if we were (compelled to be) evil.
- This security architecture means that we don't have an authentication system to defend. Your data is protected through an encryption-only system, without any of the threats that authentication-based systems face.
- 1Password protects your data using a publicly documented format. It's completely buzzword compliant—authenticated encryption: AES-256-CBC and HMAC-SHA256; key derivation: PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512—but, more importantly, the format used by 1Password is available for scrutiny by you and the security community at large. You have secrets; we don't. Why our data format is public. Of course, I can't think of many better ways to show how well 1Password protects your data than by pitting it against the pre-eminent password cracking tool `hashcat`: Crackers report great news for 1Password 4.
- 1Password is the only password manager that has ever won a design award. As Steve Jobs once said, “People think it's this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” 1Password is an Ars Design Award winner.
- 1Password integrates directly with all major browsers. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer are supported on the desktop. On iOS, 1Password even fills in Safari and third-party iOS apps that have added support for the 1Password extension. This not only makes your life much simpler but keeps sensitive data off the clipboard. It is filled securely with your explicit approval. On the Mac for example, Command-\ will log you into any website for which you have saved a Login — secure and convenient.
- 1Password syncs with Mac, Windows, iOS, Android. Using strong unique passwords that you can't remember is no good if you don't have access to them.
- 1Password provides an option to use your own, private Wi-Fi network to sync. You can sync without using a cloud service like Dropbox or iCloud. No data leaves your own local network. Again, you're in control of your own data. (You may be detecting a theme here.)
- 1Password does not charge monthly or annual fees. Once you have a Windows license, for example, you can use it on all the PCs you can possibly afford. Likewise for Mac, etc.
- 1Password supports numerous import formats and allows you to export all of your data to standard CSV or our own 1Password Interchange Format at any time. We think you will like 1Password enough that we don't need to artificially lock you in. We want happy users not trapped ones.
Khad Young, AgileBits, AgileBits Support
Written 8 Feb, 2015
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