Why you should use a password manager, and also about KeePass Password Safe

P. Rithwik Reddy (Droid Station)

Today, people use internet a lot than they have been using in the past as the use of interent increases most of use need a password for a lot of websites, your e-mail account, your webserver, network logins, etc. It becomes difficult for a person to remember all of those passwords and must need a strong password to keep an account secured. Also, you should use a different password for each account, because if you would use only one password for all the accounts and someone gets this password, you would have a problem: the hacker would have access to all of your accounts. We have many Password managers available which are either free or paid. The passwords are stored on a server and we may have a fear of the data being collected. So, I have been using a Password manager known as KeePass Password which is completely different in the password managers’ universe. Let me tell you why and how it is different from the rest.

KeePass Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager primarily for Windows. It also supports Android, IOS, MacOS, Linux through contributed/unofficial KeePass ports. Remember, unlike other password managers KeePass Password Safe does not store your passwords on the cloud instead it creates a database with .kdbx extension which is stored locally on your device and is encrypted by a master password which you have created. The creation of master password is similar to that of other password managers and the .kdbx database can be only used with the help of KeePass Password Safe or its contributed/unofficial KeePass ports.

KeePass is not a flashy, easy-to-use software. Compared to other free password managers, such as LastPass, Keeper, Dashlane etc., which feature a modern and friendly interface, KeePass is lagging behind; in fact, a user with no background in manual software configuration might be confused by its design and lack of intuitiveness. But the problem with the interface can be solved with the help of contributed/unofficial KeePass ports and these contributed/unofficial KeePass ports may not be as modernistic when compared with LastPass, Keeper, Dashlane and other password managers. Since, KeePass Password Safe does not sync your passwords on to the cloud it would be a good practice to put KeePass credentials database on cloud-syncing folders, like OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud etc. if you think these cloud folders (OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud etc) are not secure then you may use a privacy oriented cloud-syncing folders, like Nextcloud, ownCloud etc. There’s no limit to the number of passwords you can create and KeePass also allows you to create as many sub-folders as you want to manage your databases.