Bytessence PasswordManager

Bytessence PasswordManager is a free / open source personal information management tool created from the need of remembering data like logins and passwords for different websites. It is known that many internet services are offered with such logins so the quantity of passwords users need to remember grows dramatically, reaching a point where people will write them on paper or in simple text files, making them a potential victim of data theft.

BPM is very easy to use, offers strong protection (AES-256 encryption) and best of all, it's free. It also comes with some useful plugins like a password analyzer (to check the strength of your passwords), password generator (to create strong passwords) and virtual keyboard (to avoid your keystrokes being captured by hardware keyloggers). To ensure good data protection BPM features active protection capabilities like a configurable boss key (hides BPM from the screen completely or restores it), automatic clipboard clearing (after a number of seconds the clipboard is cleared to get rid of any sensitive information), automatic close of open containers (useful in case you leave your PC unprotected) and automatic backup when saving database files.

Features

• Small and fast
• Runs as native application, no huge runtimes are needed
• Easy to use, clean and intuitive interface
• Advanced group and entry management (data movement, editing, searching, etc.)
• Powerful, 256 bit AES (Rijndael) data protection
• Extendable with plugins (virtual keyboard, password strength analyzer and password generator included)
• Enhanced security features (boss key, automatic clearing of clipboard contents, automatic closing of open containers, automatic container backup)
• Supports text effects for the comments (bold, italic, changing colors, bullets, etc.)
• Supports drag and drop operations (for opening files and dragging data to other programs)
• Easy to use clipboard commands
• Intuitive keyboard shortcuts for easy access to the program's features
• Can import data from CSV files and export to CSV, Text, HTML (for backup purposes)
• Customizable user interface
• Portable (can be used from USB flash drives)
• Open source code, licensed under GNU General Public License version 3

System requirements

• Pentium class processor
• 64 MB RAM
• 5 MB of free disk space
• Operating system: Windows(TM) NT 4.0, 98, Me, 2K, XP, Vista, 7
• Internet Explorer 4.0+

What's new in version 3.0

• Added new, powerful encryption (AES-256 + SHA-256) for v3 containers
• Added support for multi-line comments
• Added text formatting capabilities for the comments (bold, italic, color change, bullets, etc.) and the URLs are automatically detected
• Added group nesting feature (ListView replaced by TreeView)
• Added expand all groups/collapse all groups options
• Added possibility to move a group to the left or to the right
• Added find / find next functions to search for text in the entries
• Added new security features (auto clipboard clearing and container backup)
• Added an internal plugin system, all the tools have become separate plug-ins
• Added a Virtualkeyboard plugin (to protect against hardware keyloggers)
• Added logging support for finding bugs with ease
• Added save capability even if there aren't any entries (just groups)
• Added a confimation when the use wants to unveil the main password (open/save container)
• Added password protection (with asterisks) for the "Add/Edit entry" dialog
• Added drag and drop capability for the information in the entry box (more secure than clipboard)
• Added possibility to start automatically at boot time
• Improved the password analyzer plugin
• Improved the password generator plugin
• Improved the KeePass 1.x CSV importer to support multi-line comments
• Improved the preferences dialog, the settings are applied without restarting the program
• Fixed some crashes when opening/saving containers, added better error detection
• Fixed several potential vulnerabilities in the program structure
• Changed parts of the UI to improve usability
• Changed the name of the program to Bytessence PasswordManager
• Revised the documentation
• The program is now open source (licensed under GPL v3)

Screenshots

BPM main user interface

Adding a new entry

The settings dialog

Download BPM

You can download BPM from the following links. Please uninstall older versions before installing the current build to avoid any problems.

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