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KeepPassSD is a Windows Mobile port of the popular open source password manager KeepPass. Just like the desktop software, KeepPassSD securely saves passwords to various login services on your Windows-based mobile device.
For first time users, here’s how it works. KeepPassSD stores all your user-names and passwords for various login services in a single master [...]
PWDumpX is a free open-source utility that provides system administrators the ability to retrieve the domain password cache, password hashes and LSA secrets from either local or remote Windows systems.
If you provide an input list of remote systems, PWDumpX will attempt to obtain the domain password cache, the password hashes and the LSA secrets from [...]
The KeyScrambler Personal Firefox extension, scrambles your keystrokes at the kernel level to protect your login credentials from keyboard sniffers.
For users, that means your keystrokes will be encrypted at the keyboard driver, deep within the operating system. When the encrypted keystrokes reach the browser, KeyScrambler will decrypt them on-the-fly and let you see the keys [...]
When you delete data files, the information is not really removed from the hard disk. Instead, the space that was occupied by the deleted data is deallocated and is available for use when new data is written to the disk. Until the space is overwritten, it is possible to recover delete data with raw disk [...]
Mozilla Firefox web browser provides a built-in password manager, which stores access credentials for visited web sites. The credentials are encrypted and stored in Firefox special database files: key3.db and signons.txt.
The key3.db file contains the master password and the key to encrypt and decrypt the passwords. The signons.txt file stores saved user names and passwords [...]
ClipperZ is a JavaScript cryptographic library that lets web developers use extensive and efficient set of cryptographic functions. The library aims to obtain maximum execution speed while preserving modularity and re-usability. The library presently includes: SRP authentication protocol, SHA2 hash functions, AES symmetric encryption and Fortuna PRNG. The developers plan to add support for elliptic [...]
PwdHash, from the Security Lab at Stanford University, is a browser extension - available for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera - that converts a user’s password into a domain-specific password. PwdHash reads any password fields in a web form and dynamically replaces them with unique strong passwords.
The unique password is auto-generated by combining the user-specified [...]
SafePasswd is a free online web site that helps users generate memorable, secure passwords for use on web sites, business systems, or any other place that may need a password. You can choose various characteristics of a good password and visually see how effective a password is.
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