iPhone, Dropbox, and Password Databases

Just a quick one from me on password databases…

I’ve always used KeePass (http://keepass.info/download.html) with a nice bit of two-factor authentication (you need to know the password AND have access to an file) to secure my passwords, and as such I don’t often know the password to many of my online services.

I’m pretty chuffed that there are a few iPhone apps which now support the KeePass file format, and as well as that (thanks to iOS4) you can open files from the dropbox app inside the KeePass apps and then, with some of them, save the file back to dropbox if you make any changes.

Pretty awesome stuff, and I picked the free one: MiniKeePass, which actually has some great features like clipboard wipe* and database erase on incorrect PIN.

*pretty lucky on my part, that feature was added and released yesterday, good timing or what?!