My notebooks’ bookmarks are a mess. I stashed over a hundred sites in at least 20 categories. Fifty percent of them requires me to login with unique credentials and twenty percent of them hold sensitive information. Imagine that data overload!
Last year, I used to maintain a hidden truecrypt volume on my disc where I hid a 1MB file containing my logins and passwords. Security is topnotch, but it takes me about a minute to navigate from activating the hidden partition, switching to the hidden directory and opening my files to browse for my data.
Yesterday, I discovered an easier solution.
I stumbled across LockCrypt. The software is an account management program written in Java. LockCrypt creates a secure, central database to store difficult to remember passwords and other critical information. Navigating through Lockcrypt to reach my secure data takes less than half the time it took me to wade through TrueCrypt volumes. Check out the features:
An Easy To Access Database
LockCrypt creates a database storing details of your website passwords, telephone numbers, credit card details, and other kind of difficult to remember information. You’ll never need to tack postits to your monitor screen again.
Monster Encryption
LockCrypt uses cipher block chaining and AES encryption to secure your data. No hacker can get at your info. Not even your determined girlfriend looking for those hidden dates of yours.
Fool Proof Interface
Drag and Drop is supported by LockCrypt to help make re-arranging your accounts easy. If you’ve used the HandySafe app for UIQ, you’ll be right at home with LockCrypt. Even kids can operate this!
Customization Galore
You can do passwords, telephone numbers, grocery lists… whatever needs storing!
Mobile version
Got a phone running Java applications? Take LockCrypt with you wherever you go. The J2ME version of LockCrypt, LockCrypt Mobile, runs on Java capable phones. Now you won’t fret when that thief takes your phone as you haggle at the market.
Download lockcrypt- it won’t cost you a cent and you’ll enjoy fantastic peace of mind. I know I do.
The nice thing about truecrypt is you can carry the secret folder around. Its a large hashed file than be opened only by the executable
The nice thing about truecrypt is you can carry the secret folder around. Its a large hashed file than be opened only by the executable
Thanks for mentioning LockCrypt, I saw your site in my referrer logs.
@bert: You can carry your LockCrypt database with you as well, the database location can easily be changed.
Thanks for mentioning LockCrypt, I saw your site in my referrer logs.
@bert: You can carry your LockCrypt database with you as well, the database location can easily be changed.
I think I’m going to give LockCrypt a try. I’ve been using Password Safe(PWsafe) for ever and love it, but short of using wine on linux it isn’t very cross-platform happy.
I think I’m going to give LockCrypt a try. I’ve been using Password Safe(PWsafe) for ever and love it, but short of using wine on linux it isn’t very cross-platform happy.
You might want to consider KeyPass. It’s a 700K standalone It does much the same as LockCrypt but it doesn’t require the overhead of JRE. Also runs from a USB drive so you can take it with you anywhere. I tried just about all of them before I went with KeyPass. Check it out!
You might want to consider KeyPass. It’s a 700K standalone It does much the same as LockCrypt but it doesn’t require the overhead of JRE. Also runs from a USB drive so you can take it with you anywhere. I tried just about all of them before I went with KeyPass. Check it out!