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Mar 16, 2005, 09:26 AM
 
I am looking for a good password manager app to store all my website passwords, software licence keys/serials etc - does anyone have any recommendations?

I have read that some people use keychain, does this encrypt your data?
     
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Mar 16, 2005, 10:05 AM
 
Keychain uses encryption, yes. You can't use it to encrypt files, but you can store those files on encrypted disk images and then put the password to that in your Keychain.

This said, be careful: the default Keychain is locked with your login password, so if someone guesses your login password then he can get at anything in there. Fortunately, you can create multiple Keychains with different passwords.
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Mar 16, 2005, 10:19 AM
 
Originally posted by Millennium:
Keychain uses encryption, yes. You can't use it to encrypt files
You can store notes in a keychain. I have a separate "Notes" keychain (with different password than log-in password) that contains notes with serial numbers and passwords and stuff.
     
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Mar 16, 2005, 07:13 PM
 
Originally posted by TETENAL:
You can store notes in a keychain. I have a separate "Notes" keychain (with different password than log-in password) that contains notes with serial numbers and passwords and stuff.
True, but some vendors actually send license keys as actual files rather than serials or passwords. PowerMail does this, for example.
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