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KeePass Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager primarily for Windows. It officially supports macOS and Linux operating systems through the use of Mono . [ 1 ] Additionally, there are several unofficial ports for Windows Phone , Android , iOS , and BlackBerry devices, which normally work with the same copied or shared (remote ...
OpenKeychain is a free and open-source mobile app for the Android operating system that provides strong, user-based encryption which is compatible with the OpenPGP standard. This allows users to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify signatures for text, emails, and files. The app allows the user to store the public keys of other users with whom ...
The Keychain Access application does not permit setting an empty password on a keychain. The keychain may be set to be automatically "locked" if the computer has been idle for a time, [6] and can be locked manually from the Keychain Access application. When locked, the password has to be re-entered next time the keychain is accessed, to unlock it.
The keys are derived using an equivalent of PBKDF2 with SHA-256 and a configurable number of iterations, currently set at 2048. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In a 2012 paper analysing various database formats of password storage programs for security vulnerabilities the researchers found that the format used by Password Safe (version 3 format) was the most ...
In June 2012, SwiftKey released a specialized version of its keyboard called SwiftKey Healthcare. It is a virtual keyboard for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices that offers next-word predictions based on real-world clinical data. [30] In October 2012, SwiftKey Healthcare won the Appsters Award for Best Enterprise App 2012. [31]
Other operating systems can optionally re-map the keyboard layout or have different modifier keys (for example the Amiga keyboard has "A" modifier keys and BBC Micro or Acorn keyboards often had a "Shift Lock" as well as a "Caps Lock"). Under Unix/Linux the "Windows" key is often called the "Super" key and can be re-mapped by users for specific ...
FilterKeys (or Filter Keys) is an accessibility feature of Microsoft Windows. It configures the keyboard to ignore brief or repeated keystrokes, making typing easier for people with hand tremors, who may accidentally press keys multiple times. This feature helps to prevent unintended characters from being entered.
On the other hand, if Microsoft failed to think about the consequences of key loss and created a first key without using secret splitting (and did so in secure hardware which doesn't allow protection to be weakened after key generation), and the NSA pointed out this problem as part of the review process, it might explain why Microsoft weakened ...