Got a lot of passwords? Accessing a lot of web sites, e-commerce sites, encrypted .zip files, password-protected financial software, etc? Then you might want to check out Password Safe. Written by the author of the (in)famous Applied Cryptography book (as well as several other cryptography books), Bruce Schneier, this open-source project is intended to give you a pseudo-safe place to keep all the passwords you need, protected under a master password. This way the master password is the only one you really need to remember. It even gives you the ability to generate (pseudo-)random passwords to save, eliminating the possibility of you choosing a poor (cryptographically) password that is easy to remember. The database file it generates is encrypted but fully transferable, so you can copy it to another system and use Password Safe or another program that is compatible to use it there as well (i.e. to synchronize between a home PC and a work computer).
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