The PDA of tungsten

After post of yesterday, already we know how to choose good passwords. But so that they are safe, we must have so many and so difficult to remember, how we can be fixed not to stop using them to the third day by boredom? Then very easy, using some of the many specific programs for these necessities that exist for the Palm.

The advantages are multiple. When using the Palm to keep to our we will have them always by hand passwords and in a known site, and so we will not lose them and whenever we take the Palm above are available. In addition, we saved ourselves to have to memorise them. Of step, we will be able to take to more important information, as deprived account numbers of the bank, numbers of telephone, and any other confidential information. And the keys can be organized by categories, to avoid the disorder.

In addition, although somebody is able to have access to our PDA, will not be able to take control of them, since these programs prohibit the nonauthorized access of users who we by means of a global password are not. Thus we reduce the problem to memorise them all, to memorise a single, that therefore could much more be complex. And since we are not going to have to memorise them, these programs include the option to create very safe random passwords automatically when we need a new one.

Once view its utility, I will comment the programs that I have more liked of that I have tried:

• As always, the first option is free software. But in this case excessively: how we are going to trust the security of a program (we want that it does not allow to accede to the information without knowing the password, that do not have back doors, etc global), if nobody can see how is done? For this reason, I recommend Keyring. It is an application of easy use, available in Spanish. It allows to write a text along with the password (for any related information that we need to have by hand). It has the generator of random passwords del that spoke before, with a pile of options to secure totally random passwords or that they are pronounceable, of the size that we choose, that includes symbols or only alphanumeric characters, etc. Uses the algorithm of triple encryption DES, with keys of 112 bits, which does very surely. A really complete program.


Keyring uses a powerful algorithm of coding

• Another gratuitous program, although does not free, that I have liked is Yaps. He is much more simple, with less functionalities than Keyring, but in return it only occupies 61kB, which stops older equipment can be an advantage. It uses Blowfish encryption of 256 bits.
• Finally also I recommend SplashID.

  Published: Delagua has come up to me in the commentaries with which SplashID is not gratuitous. I a few months ago unloaded it in a temporary promotion, where they offered the registered version, but has returned to be version shareware, limited 30 days of use. Of all ways I do not erase what I wrote envelope he, in case to somebody is to him from interest.

  Although the complete version, that includes program for Palm and PC (to introduce the data more comfortably), is commercial, I discovered by chance that if we unloaded only the version for Palm he is completely gratuitous. It includes the same generator of passwords that Keyring, which is a point to its favor. He is well-taken care of aesthetically, with possibility of assigning icons to the different categories, and allows to publish the types of information to keep, personalizando the fields of data, thus to have for example a type “bank” with fields “account number” and “secret number”, etc. Era the one that used until I discovered Keyring, and also seems to me a good program. It uses the algorithm of Blowfish encryption.

Splashid is showier and personalizeable

I recommend to you to prove the three to decide what agrees to you more, since all fulfill their function well. No longer you have excuse to use little recommendable passwords, thanks as always to the great utility of our Palm. And for that I am as confused as, these programs often save to us to lose the morning because we did not remember our data to enter some account that we needed to use.

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