KeePassX is a tool designed for those of you who have extremly high demands on secure personal data management. KeePassX has a light interface, is cross platform and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachments and comments in one single database. For a better management user-defined titles and icons can be specified for each single entry.

Furthermore the entries are sorted in groups, which are customizable as well. The integrated search function allows to search in a single group or the complete database.

KeePassX offers a little utility for secure password generation.The password generator is very fast, customizable, and easy to use. someone who generates passwords frequently will definitely appreciate this feature.

The complete database is always encrypted either with AES (alias Rijndael) or Twofish encryption algorithm using a 256 bit key. Therefore the saved information can be considered as quite safe. KeePassX uses a database format that is compatibel with KeePass Password Safe. This makes the use of that application even more favourable.

Originally KeePassX was called KeePass/L for Linux since it was a port of Windows password manager Keepass Password Safe.

After KeePass/L became a cross platform application the name was not appropriate anymore and therefore, on 22 March 2006 it has been changed.

Here are some key features of "KeePassX":

Extensive management- title for each entry for its better identification
￭ possibility to determine different expiration dates
￭ insertion of attachments
￭ user-defined symbols for groups and entries
￭ fast entry dublication
￭ sorting entries in groups

Search function
￭ search either in specific groups or in complete database

Autofill (experimental)

Database security
￭ access to the KeePassX database is granted either with a password, a key-file (e.g. a CD or a memory-stick) or even both.

Automatic generation of secure passwords
￭ extremly customizable password generator for fast and easy creation of secure passwords

Precaution features- quality indicator for chosen passwords- hiding all passwords behind asterisks

Encryption- either the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) or the Twofish algorithm are used
￭ encryption of the database in 256 bit sized increments

Import and export of entries
￭ import from PwManager (*.pwm) and KWallet (*.xml) files- export as textfile (*.txt)

Operating system independent
￭ KeePassX is cross platform, so are the databases, as well

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This is a small update that fixes an error when opening twofish encrypted databases.