Keepass file key. How to use KeePass - Automatic insertion of login and password. Download the KeePass Password Safe program

Only for KeePass 1.x

Only for KeePass 2.x

Using a Windows User Account

Only for KeePass 1.x

Only for KeePass 2.x

You can safely change the password for your Windows user account. This will not affect the KeePass database.

Be very careful when using this option. If your Windows user account is deleted, you will no longer be able to open your KeePass database. Additionally, when using this option on home system and if your computer fails (for example, the hard drive), then it will not be enough to simply create a new account Windows entry at new installation with the same name and password, you will need to copy full recording user (ie SID, ...). And this is not simple task, so if you do not know how to do this, we strongly recommend that you do not use this option.

If you decide to use this feature, it is strongly recommended not to rely (for security) solely on it, but to additionally use one of the other two options (password or keyfile).

User account protection is supported on Windows 98/ME.

For Administrators: Determining the Minimum Properties of Master Master Keys

Administrators can specify a minimum length and/or a minimum quality rating for passwords used. You can install KeePass verification of these two minimum requirements by adding/editing the corresponding entries in the INI/XML configuration files.

Only for KeePass 1.x

The KeeMasterPasswordMinQuality key parameter value can contain the minimum password quality score in bits. For example, setting KeeMasterPasswordMinQuality=64 will only allow passwords with a quality score of at least 64 bits.

Only for KeePass 2.x

And the MinimumQuality value in the Security/MasterPassword settings can contain the minimum password quality rating in bits. For example, setting this value to 32 will only accept passwords with a quality score of at least 32 bits.

In KeePass ≥ 2.10, by specifying KeyCreationFlags and/or KeyPromptFlags (in the UI node) you can enable different states (enable, disable, check, uncheck) of key control parameters, creation and live dialogs. These values ​​can be bitwise combinations of one or more of the following flags:

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Sooner or later, every user or administrator faces a security problem when storing multiple passwords. You will either prefer to create one universal password for all occasions, or you will store all your passwords in some unreliable, unprotected place. Therefore, if you are concerned about the current situation and are worried about the safety of your passwords, you will have to look for a solution.

I recommend you a free and reliable solution. The KeePass program has large set functions, it is free and, importantly, it has an open source source code. The latter eliminates the possibility of embedding code to track your data and steal passwords. The convenience of using this program is that you will only need to come up with and remember one password and you can use it to access the database of all your passwords. Plus, for complete protection against unauthorized access, KeePass has the ability to create a key in the form of a file, without which it will be impossible to access the password file in the future.

Installation of KeePass

To install Kipas, go to the download page (here). On the website you can choose 2 program options: Classic Edition and Professional Edition. To operate the first version of the program, you will not need to have Microsoft.NET installed, which is required for the second version of the program. I recommend installing Professional. Plus, it is possible to install a portable version on your computer. Portable is preferable because it leaves no traces and does not create entries in the registry. It just works.

You simply download the portable version, unzip the archive to the location from which you plan to run the program. Since I work from different places different computers, I found a solution for myself to use Google Drive for storing the program and password file. With this organization of the program's location, all changes and settings are saved for any computer, no matter where I work. Just take and move the program folder to the Google Drive folder. You can also use it to store programs and files with passwords for any cloud service. If you like it better removable media, you can use a flash drive. This is exactly what the Portable version of the program has.

How to Russify KeePass

After installation, the first thing you need to do is Russify the program. Russifying KeePass is very easy. Download the translation file for your language from this page and, in the case of the portable version, simply save the file from the archive to the folder with the program (the file looks like Russian.lngx). Please note that you need to select a file to download that corresponds to your version.

After that, run the program, select “Change Language...” in the “View” menu and select Russian in the window that opens ( accessible language appear only if you downloaded the Russification file of the correct version and put it in the folder with the program). The program will prompt you to restart it. You agree and this completes the Russification.

Creating a Password Database

The next step is to create a password database. This is a special file that actually stores all your data on accounts and passwords with all settings. You can create multiple files that store passwords. And each will have its own password. This can be done if several people work on the same computer under one account and everyone needs access to their passwords. And then in this case, each user opens only his own file and enters his password for access.

To create a new database, go to the “File” item and select “New...” or you can immediately press the key combination Ctrl+N. In the window that opens, select the location where your password file will be stored. As I said earlier, this file can be stored on any medium (DropBox, Google Drive, Yandex Drive, or simply on a flash drive). Select a name for the file and click “Save”.

The next step is to create a master password to access your password database. To protect your data, KeePass offers 3 different ways protection. Each of them can be used separately or for complete and maximum protection use all three or at least two methods. I don’t use the third method (Windows Account), so I won’t recommend it to you either.

To protect a file:

1. We come up with and create a main password for access. This is the password you will need to remember once to access all passwords. Enter the password in the field and in the second field “Repeat password:” enter exactly the same password. If the passwords match, the input field will be highlighted in white; if they do not match, the input field will be highlighted in red. The bar below (Quality Rating) indicates how crack-resistant the password you have created is. Try to ensure that the stripe is, if not complete, then at least in the green zone.
2. If you want to have a check using a key file, click on the “New” button (number 4 in the figure) and select a location to store this file. Again, this can be any medium, but logically it should be a different medium from the one on which the password file is stored. For example, a flash drive that you carry in your wallet for a key and the file with the database is stored in cloud storage and you remember the password for it. However, keep in mind that you will not be able to recover your password and if you lose the key file, you will also lose access to the database and will not be able to recover it. I only use the first method of protection. I came up with a very complex password and remembered it.
3. You can also add an account as an identification method. But in the case of, for example, the portable version of KeePass, you will not have access to the password file from a different computer than the one on which you created it.

The next step, the program will offer to configure some password database parameters. I usually leave all settings unchanged. You can for better protection increase the number of cycles for encryption. How larger number, the longer it takes to open the password database. The time also depends on the power of your computer. The number of cycles can be selected for a specific computer based on the calculation that the database will open for 1 second. Just click on "Calculate for second delay". For my work computer, this number was over 14 million cycles. If you specify this parameter, then for less powerful computer(for example, you open the database on a weak old laptop), the opening time will not be 1 second, but much longer. I leave the remaining tabs as default.

Setting up and creating entries

After successfully creating a database, the program will automatically open this database and example records will already be created in the window. You can safely delete them or study them as examples.

The program window has 3 main areas that you will constantly use:

1. This is an area for grouping your data into folders. With their help, you can see all records or sort by a specific group. From the very beginning, it is best to decide on the structure of your data for storage. For example, I sort by folders in the following form: my sites, money, email, hosting, ftp, etc.
2. The second area is the records that are in the folder you selected on the left.
3. The third area is information about the entry that is selected.

To create new folder Right-click on the folder within which you want to create. And in the drop-down menu select “Add group” (1). In the adding group window, in the “General” tab, enter the name (2) and for convenience, you can select the icon (3).

The next step is to create a record directly that will store all the data about the login, password and other fields for quick access to them. To create, right-click in the field with records and select “Add record...” or you can press the key combination Ctrl+I.

A window will open for filling in data with many bookmarks. The main fields to fill out are in the first tab.

Fill in the “Name” field as the profile name for the created password. The name will be your login username and password, respectively, the password. The link field is either the site on which you use your login password or a link to the executable file if you enter your login and password in the program and not on the site. Later in the article I will show with an example how to use this.

If you are creating an entry for an existing account with a password, you simply enter existing password. To check the correctness of the entered password, simply click on the button with 3 large dots and the program will display symbols instead of dots. If a new entry is being created and a password needs to be created, then it is best for you to use the password generator that is built into KeePass.

To open the password generation tool, click on the button with the image of a key and a gear to the right of the “Repeat password” field. To use this tool without opening the record creation form, simply select “Tools” -> “Password Generator...” from the menu.

Using this form, you can create passwords as complex as you need. And thanks to the fact that you no longer need to memorize them, feel free to generate and use the most complex combinations.

In the settings of the password generator, you can set which symbols, uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and even special characters to use in generation (1) . The password length is also indicated. After setting the settings, you just need to open the “View” tab and select any of those offered in the list (3) . If you need to exclude any character from the generation, this can be done in the “Advanced” tab (2) .

After filling out all the data on the first tab, go to the most interesting, convenient and useful tab “Auto-dialer” (it is because of this feature that I fell in love with this particular program). Auto typing allows you to automatically fill in the fields for entering a website or program by pressing the key combination Ctrl+Alt+A.

For autodialing, go to the “Autodialing” tab and check that autodialing is enabled.

1. This switch selects which sequence to use when filling out login forms. For the most effective use It would be best to immediately think through the folder structure and set up a sequence for each folder. In this case, the new entry will inherit the sequence that is defined for the folder.
2. We add a target window so that the program can determine which login and password entry to use. More on this below.

To set the general autodial sequence for a folder:

1. Right-click on the folder
2. Select “Change group” from the drop-down list
3. Go to the “Auto dial” tab
4. Click on the wand to generate a sequence
5. Set the required sequence. Set as follows— in the “Placeholder” window, select it by clicking on the corresponding entry. The list is very large and it is possible to create almost any sequence. In my case, the following will happen: the title of the entry (Title) will be added to the field, then pressing the Tab key, then login, Tab, password and finally Enter.

After this, if the “Inherit autodial from group” switch is selected when creating a record, this sequence will be used. If you need to change the auto-dialing for any of the entries in the group, select “Use the following sequence” and specify the required one.

How to use KeePass

Using the example of creating entries to log into a website in Google browser Chrome and to connect to an FTP server using FileZilla, I will show you how to create entries and use them. I always use KeePass to log into my sites.

1. In the left folder window, create a folder of entries for logging into sites. In the folder, click create a new entry.
2. Knowing my login and password, I write the name of the site in the title, the login in the name, and the password in the password, respectively.
3. Go to the “Auto-dial” tab and set the switch to the “Inherit auto-dial from group” position. By default, the autodial contains a sequence that in most cases is suitable for filling out login forms.
4. The next step is to indicate to the program the login window so that KeePass can automatically determine which entry to use for (in our case, this is a tab in Google Chrome with open page my site). Please note that the window and site must be open and active. Click the add button.
5. In the “Target window” drop-down list, find the element we need and click “Ok”. There can be several target windows for one record. And for each you can set a sequence. This is convenient if you use the same login and password for different sites and each requires its own sequence.
6. The target window should appear in the list. Click “Ok” and save our database by clicking on the blue floppy disk.

The record has been created and we just need to check its functionality. We open our website with a login form, place the cursor in the login field and press the key combination Ctrl+Alt+A. If everything is done correctly, KeePass will automatically insert your login and password information and click on login.

In order to use KeePass to insert a login and password into a program (for example, such as ), you must use the “Name” field and change the input sequence.

1. For convenience, we create a folder for FTP connections. When creating a folder, in the “Auto-Dial” tab, switch to the “Use the following sequence” position.
2. Using the “Magic Wand” button to the right of the field, set the following sequence as in the image.
3. In the created folder, add a new entry for connecting to FTP and in the “Name” field indicate the FTP address that the hosting provider gave you for the connection. The Title field will be used in the typing sequence as (Title). Those. kipas will take the data from the “Name” field (in my case it is 192.168.1.200) and substitute this value in the FileZilla field as the address. We fill in the login and password as in the previous example.
4. In the “Auto-dial” tab, when creating a record, we specify to inherit auto-dial from the group. This is convenient if you have a lot of entries in a folder and need to change the sequence. You simply change the folder settings and all entries will inherit it.
5. Add a target window by clicking the “Add” button and selecting from the list (to do this, run the necessary program FileZilla)
6. Click “Ok” and check the functionality.

One of the key issues for user security on the Internet is the creation of strong passwords. Almost all of us are registered on social networks, and, as a rule, in several at once. We have email, skype, we use various services(for example, cloud data storages like , etc.), we use electronic money to pay for purchases on the Internet, we are registered on forums. A special category is the owners of websites and blogs. A password to your own website is the first precaution on which not only access to the administration of your resource depends, but also the safety of its visitors. I'm sure that when you find out how to use KeePass, your site will receive another reliable outpost against potential attackers.

It’s clear that manually creating strong passwords for each site or service you use is a rather labor-intensive and complex process. However, if you entrust this task to a program, you can not only make your life easier, but also significantly increase the security of your virtual (and sometimes even real) space. And now I want to teach you how to create strong password in the program KeepPass Password Safe.

Download the KeePass Password Safe program

We will download the latest version of the program from the official website so that there are no misunderstandings in such a sensitive issue as creating passwords. So, go to the KeePass Password Safe download page (the link will open in a new tab), and in the right column with the title Professional Edition click on the first link - KeePass 2.20.1 (Installer EXE for Windows)(Please note that version 2.20.1 is only current at the time of writing this article - most likely when you download the program, the version will be different). After clicking on the download link, we are transferred to a reliable storage service software Sourceforge.net- and after a 5-second wait a dialog box will appear to save the program installer. Click Save and select a location on your computer to save.

Don't be scared by the native one for KeePass English language- just below you will learn how to teach the program to the Great and Mighty :)

Downloaded, great. Now run the downloaded file KeePass-X.XX.X-Setup.exe and let's start installation.

Installing KeePass Password Safe

There are no features in the KeePass installation that are worth focusing on. Let me just clarify that at the stage called Select additional tasks check that the option is checked Link KeePass to files with the extension .kdbx(this is the database format in which KeePass stores passwords), and also check Create an icon on the desktop to quickly launch the program in the future double click by icon.

At the last stage, when you press the button Complete we will finish the installation, and the program will automatically launch (unless, of course, you unchecked the corresponding option at this stage).

Russification of KeePass Password Safe

After starting the program, we are presented with empty window, and not every user will easily understand what to do with it next. The picture is further clouded by the English-language interface, which for many will also be the cornerstone for starting to use KeePass to store passwords. In fact, this is not such a serious problem, and now we will wean the program from bourgeois habits and instill in it a love for the Great and Mighty.

First you need to download KeePass crack from the program website. To do this, go to and scroll down to Russian flag icon with the inscription Russian and click on the link in this line on the right:

Russification file KeePass Password Safe

After this, we will be transferred to the already familiar Sourceforge and after 5 seconds the browser will prompt you to save the archive Russian-2.20.zip to our computer. For convenience, I saved it to Desk.

Now we need to copy the crack contained in the archive to the folder where you installed KeePass (if you did not change the installation path during the installation process, it will look like this: C:\Program Files\KeePass Password Safe 2).

Open this folder, and also double-click the newly downloaded archive ( Russian-2.20.zip) and drag the file from it with the mouse Russian.lngx V KeepPass folder:

Copy the Russification file to the program folder

Copied? Great, now all we have to do is tell KeePass the language in which it should communicate with the user. To do this in KeepPass Password Safe window in the menu View select an item Change Language and in the window that appears, click on the line Russian. After clicking, another window will appear asking you (in English) to restart the program to activate the Russian-language interface. Click Yes:

Activation of the Russian-language interface in KeePass

After the reboot, the program will be happy to communicate with us in Russian. Congratulations, you did great!

Creating a password database in KeePass Password Safe

Now we need to create a database in which we will securely store our passwords. To do this, in the KeePass window, in the File menu, select New. A dialog box appears in front of us in which we need to select the location to save the password database file and its name.

I advise you not to name the database with the phrase “My passwords” or something like that. Of course, we will encrypt the database with a special master password, but in any case, you should not openly tell a potential spherical attacker in a vacuum that it is in this file that you store the keys to everything that his unclean little hands and evil thoughts would not mind touching. Make an additional contribution to your policy computer security in the form implicit name of the password database.

Creating a KeePass password database

After pressing the button Save a window will appear in front of us in which we need to set Primary password for our base. Manually (this is important) enter it in the field Primary password and then, again, manually, re-enter the field Repeat password.

There are also a couple of recommendations here: the main password should be quite complex, but at the same time you should remember it by heart. I advise you to do this: come up with and write down a password in your main notepad (paper) or diary, to which unauthorized people do not have access, and then set it as the Main Password for the KeePass database. And take some time to memorize this password - this is important.

Setting the main password for the database

After pressing the button OK Another window appears in front of us with the ability to change settings for the future database. Basically, you can click on the tabs and change something if you are sure of what you are doing, and I will click the button again OK- the default settings are usually optimal for most users and there is no need to change anything.

Now a password database template has finally appeared in the KeePass window. It already has several groups and even a couple of entries with passwords for example. Some you can remove, but some may be useful on the farm.

What are groups for in KeePass?

As you probably already guessed, groups are needed to sort multiple passwords into sections. You can, for example, separate passwords used on the Internet from passwords for encrypted archives and protected files on your local computer.

You can create custom password groups. To do this, in the left column, right-click on the name of the database and select the item in the context menu Add a group. Enter a name and press a key Enter:

Addition new group passwords in KeePass

Likewise, you can add subgroups to groups to further differentiate various types passwords. For example, so that in a group Internet create subgroups Social media And Forums, right-click on it and select Create a group.

Creating passwords in KeePass Password Safe

The need to create a new password arises, for example, during registration in any online service. To explore KeePass further, let's. If you've already studied mine and registered an account with this cloud file storage service, you can simply take the following instructions as an example for using KeePass to manage passwords for other services.

So, let's go to . Let's see what we need in order to register:

Fields to fill out when registering with Dropbox

So, there are four main fields:

• Surname
• Email
• Password

To log into our account in the future, we will need to fill out two fields: Email And Password. So let's open our password database and create a new one recording for Dropbox with email address as login and password.

So, in the group Internet I created a subgroup Storage(you already know how this is done, right?). Now click on this subgroup to select it and create a new entry using the button Adding an entry:

Adding a New Entry to KeePass

So, the creation window appears in front of us new entry, where we need to fill in several fields. Fields Password And Repeat already filled with an automatically generated password. If you wish, you can view it by clicking on the button marked in the picture below with a green rectangle, and in the meantime I will fill in the missing fields:

Entering data for a new entry

• Name: I called any that is understandable to you by the name of the service.
• Name: your login on the resource. In this case, I entered the address here email, since it acts as a login on Dropbox.
• Password: by default it is already generated and duplicated. However, you can delete it by clicking on the button with three dots to the right of the field and enter your own. Just make sure that the password is secure.
• Repeat password: If you chose to enter your own password in the previous field, you will have to repeat the entry here.
• Quality: Password strength indicator. Ideally, the bar should end in green; the stronger the password, the more the field is filled.
• Link: additional field for inserting the resource address. It is not necessary to fill out.
• Comments: here you can write at least a short novel)) But it is better to write down any data related to the account. In this example, I wrote down the field values First Name And Last Name, which must be filled out when registering for Dropbox (maybe it will be useful in the future). It is not necessary to fill out.

Also a few points about the automatically generated password. By default, a password is created that is 20 characters long and contains uppercase and lowercase Latin letters, as well as numbers. This is already a very serious level of password security, but the trouble is that not all services allow you to set a password of this length.

So let's create a special profile to generate a password, say 12 characters long. To do this, click on button with key opposite the field Repeat and select the item from the drop-down list Open password generator(see picture above).

Now in the dialog box that opens, set the length in 12 characters, press the button Save current settings as profile, set a name for the profile in the pop-up window (I called it “12 characters”) and press the button OK. Then press the button again OK in the window Password generator:

Now when creating a new record we only need select the desired password profile. Let's set a 12-character password for the entry we're creating now with just a few clicks.

So, after saving the new password profile, we are left with a window for editing the entry (if this is not the case, open it again by double-clicking the mouse). And all we need now to set a 12-character password is to click on the button again Password generation(opposite the field Repeat), but this time select the item Generate using profile and in the drop-down list click on the profile we just created:

Create a password using your profile

Ready! Now you can make profiles for different occasions - with different lengths of characters, with additional characters to strengthen the strength of the password. Just remember that it is important to first make sure that the service or program for which you are creating a password supports it in all respects.

How to use KeePass - Copying login and password manually

The login and password prepared in this way can be copied automatically, but first, let’s figure out how to do this manually (this is also sometimes necessary). So, after creating the entry, we can see it in the list in the group Storage:

Ready entry with login and password

Pay attention to the buttons highlighted with a red rectangle. The first one is a button Copy name to clipboard. As its name suggests, when you click on it, the login from the selected entry in the list will be copied to the clipboard. In this example, the email address will be copied, since that is what I set as the login. The second button is called Copy password to clipboard. I don't think it's worth explaining what she does.

When using these buttons the data is copied to the clipboard for a few seconds(default is 12). After this time, the clipboard will be cleared. This way, you don't have to worry that if you copy your password and walk away from your computer, you'll allow someone else to paste the contents of your clipboard into, say, Notepad while you're away, and find out your password.

So using this method, let's finally create an account on Dropbox. Fields First Name And Last Nam e I filled in manually, for Email- copied the login using the method described above and pasted it into the field, for the field Password- copied and pasted the password. By the way, notice how happy Dropbox is with the password: the strength indicator under the password field in the registration form has turned completely green - this is another confirmation that KeePass produces excellent passwords!

To complete registration, all you have to do is check the box I agree to Dropbox Terms and click the big blue button Sign Up:

Completed Dropbox registration form

By the way, immediately after this we will be redirected to the Dropbox application download page for installation on your computer. Decide for yourself, but I’ve been using it for a long time

How to use KeePass - Automatic insertion of login and password

One of the most amazing features for a KeePass user is automatic filling authorization forms. More precisely, semi-automatic - we only need to select the desired entry and press the key combination. To demonstrate this example, I suggest sign out of Dropbox for a while. To do this, in the upper right corner of the page, click on link with your first and last name and select the item from the drop-down list Sign Out:

Sign out of Dropbox

Automatic form filling using KeePass

Thus, KeePass safely authorized us to Dropbox. A little advice: before you give an order to fill out the form, make sure that all the necessary checkboxes under it are checked. In the example above the option Remember me(“remember me”) is checked by default, but this is not the case on all sites - in this case, check the necessary options in advance.

And finally...

Of course, use KeepPass Password Safe for authorization on sites - not the best convenient way, although there is nothing complicated about it. It's much easier to use browsers' built-in tools to automatically fill out forms. However, to create strong passwords you will either have to use online generators or practice creating complex passwords with the help of active massage of the convolutions)) And if generated on third party resource If the browser loses your password and you don’t write it down anywhere, you will have unnecessary problems recovering your credentials.

Having learned to use such a wonderful password manager, How KeepPass, you have at your disposal a reliable guard and security assistant. And if until now you have used a regular text file And Windows Notepad- Stop this most dangerous practice as soon as possible! With the penetration of the Internet into many areas of our lives you endanger not only yourself, but also other users.

If you have questions or something remains unclear, write about it in the comments, I will try to answer as quickly as possible. I would also be glad to know what tools you use to organize your passwords.

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Not long ago I wrote about my problem with , which got there by stealing passwords from my favorite FTP manager, Filezilla.

The program itself is not bad at all, but the entered authorization data is stored in it in clear text - I don’t want to take it. And in browsers, not everything is so rosy with the storage of data entered into them. In this regard, I became concerned about finding a way to solve the problem secure password storage.

Probably many of you already use some kind of password manager. But I just now got around to looking for such software and my choice fell on KeepPass. This program has a built-in generator of complex combinations, stores them in an encrypted database, and also quite conveniently allows them to be inserted into browsers, FTP managers and other software.

In addition, Kipas is free and open source, which allows you to believe in the reliability of storing your confidential data in this program (any person knowledgeable in programming could have brought it to light since 2003, however, since this did not happen, then You can trust this software 100%).

Installing and configuring the KeePass password manager

In the field of data encryption, open source code is more of a plus than a minus (TrueCrypt, which I wrote about in an article about, is proof of this). Of course, this program has a lot of paid and free analogues, which some of you probably use in your daily practice, but based on a combination of factors, I like KeePass the most at the moment.

Among other things, third-party developers produce plugins for it, which, for example, can integrate this manager with popular browsers to improve reliability and convenience of storing passwords in them. Although, Kipas already has a tool called AutoType by default.

Those. you simply place the cursor in the first line of the authorization form on a website or any program, and then press the key combination Ctrl+Alt+A, and if for this page or software you bothered to create a profile in KeePass, then the form will be safely filled in with a login and password, and the entered data will not remain in any other places accessible to malware.

Of course, no one guarantees absolute reliability, but by setting up this password manager you can reduce the risk of interception and theft of important data to a minimum. For example, the copied data lives on the clipboard for the number of seconds you specify; the program can close access to its database (enable blocking) after certain time and after certain actions.

In general, let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this generator and keeper of important data as we go. Download KeePass can be completely free on this page, but you will immediately have to choose between the simplified version 1..., which does not require Microsoft.NET (or Mono in free software) to work, and version 2..., which requires this framework, but its functionality is much wider, and it can work not only under Windows, but also under Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and other Linux-like systems. See more details.

By the way, the full name of this password keeper sounds like KeePass Password Safe and in addition to the division into versions described just above, there is also a division according to the type of installation of the program: regular and portable ( Portable Kipas).

The second option, in my opinion, is preferable, because it has no disadvantages over full version, does not leave any traces of itself in the operating system and can easily live on a flash drive (it would be advisable to duplicate it periodically to avoid losing everything at once).

Actually, I use the portable version. For Russification or Ukrainization of the interface for this password generator, it will be enough to download the translation file for the version you are using from this page and copy it to the folder with the program (in case Portable versions). Then go into it and go from the top menu along the path: “View” - “Change Language”. In the window that opens, select your language, Kipas will reboot and the desired language will be applied to the interface.

Where to start? WITH creation new base . They can be created in an unlimited number, for example, when several people work on the computer and each will have their own individual set of complex passwords generated in KeePass, to which no other user will have access. In most cases, you can get by with just one database, since remembering several master keys from them will be difficult.

To do this, click on the empty piece of paper on the toolbar of this manager (or select from the “File” - “New” menu):

If you have a portable version, then it makes sense to save the database in the folder with the program (on a flash drive). If the version of the manager is complete or you copied Portable to drive C, then under no circumstances throw the file with the database there, because if it malfunctions or is restored from the image, it may end up in storage along with all the invaluable passwords.

It can be placed, for example, in so that you always have the opportunity to pull a copy from the Internet. There is no need to worry about its safety, because the data in it is encrypted in a very reliable way.

In the next step, you will be asked how secure access to stored passwords should be. This will be expressed in how many authorization steps you select in the composite key window to access the database:

Access to the encrypted database in Kipas You can close it with as many as three barriers:

1. Master key to enter the manager (you will have to remember or write it down, because without it...)
2. Key file - choose, for example, on your computer, or better yet a flash drive, some inconspicuous file (preferably among a bunch of similar ones) and say that it will now be the key file. It can also be created specially. But be sure to copy it to a few more places (another flash drive, hard drive (but not on C) or to cloud storage on something like Yandex Disk or Dropbox, because in case of its loss...)

You can even link this program for storing passwords to your Windows account, although if you use the portable version of KeePass on a flash drive, this will be superfluous, because you will no longer open this password manager on another computer (you will not get access to the encrypted database). If you plan to work from only one computer, then linking to an account will further increase the security of your databases.

But remember that adding any new device will change this same account and problems will arise. At least that's what happened to me after the replacement. motherboard. Therefore, be careful with this option.

Next you will be asked to change some settings created base . You can, for example, increase the strength of the encryption method used by increasing the number of cycles (passes), but this will somewhat (not significantly) slow down its opening and saving data into it:

It will be possible to enable or disable databases to reduce the size they occupy, and also decide whether or not to use the built-in one. this manager“Trash” where deleted profiles will be placed.

On the “Advanced” tab, you can ask the program to remind you about the need to change the master key after a certain number of days (if paranoia has set in and you have started setting up a password manager, then periodically changing the key will not seem superfluous).

At the end of this process, you will be taken to a tab with your newly created database for passwords and logins (they are located on horizontal stripe tabs), where you will find folders and example profiles carefully created for you by the KeePass keeper:

You are free to remove all this demo wealth so that clean slate build your well-designed hierarchical tree in this generator and saver. Well, I’ve told you the most difficult part, and then you’re on your own... Of course, I’m joking, because there’s still a lot of text left at the bottom. I’ll try to tell you in detail about what I managed to figure out.

Password generator and keeper with easy insertion

My main task was to customize the most safe work with FTP manager FileZilla, as well as convenient and secure storage of passwords from money programs (for example) and money sites (or no less popular or). Well, there are also a lot of sites whose passwords should not be known to attackers.

There is also the problem of hacking mail, where letters with passwords and logins for all this wealth are often stored, but, firstly, I focus everything more or less important on my , because it is linked to my computer and using SMS sent to my cell phone . Secondly, I periodically delete all mail from there to avoid...

Let me make a reservation right away - why start this whole circus of creating complex passwords and storing them in encrypted form. After all, there are password managers in the same FTP clients, and browsers are not offended by such tools. Waste of time? Not at all. Do you have Filezilla on your computer? Now follow this path:

C:\Users\[account name]\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla\sitemanager.xml

Or this in the case of old XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\[account name]\Application Data\FileZilla\sitemanager.xml

This file can be opened, for example, in my favorite . So what do we have? And we have a full set of passwords saved in this program, which Absolutely no protection from theft, because the file is not encrypted, and its location is the same for 99.99% of computers.

And a little earlier I scolded my beloved for this. Take it - I don’t want it.

Do you think things are better with browsers? Well, maybe a little, but if you type in the search queries “how to find out the password in Opera”, then you will probably receive an answer that they are stored in the file wand.dat, which is not difficult to find in the directory c:\Users\account name\AppData\Roaming\Opera\ .

Well, the freely distributed Unwand program will help you open its contents. As a result, you will receive a list that you can copy into NotePad++, and use the built-in search to find all the passwords you are interested in.

I myself have used this opportunity more than once to search for a password and login that was not written down anywhere, but remembered. I can’t speak for other browsers (it’s possible that passwords are encrypted somewhere and this is done securely), but most likely the situation is not very optimistic. Therefore, I decided to remove all important profiles from the managers built into browsers, first transferring them to KeePass.

In general, something similar to convenient and secure storage and generation of passwords I managed to organize it. I couldn’t figure out some things, but here I am hoping for you - maybe someone knows English well and understands the essence that I didn’t understand.

So, first you need to think about the structure of the hierarchical tree in Kipas. New subfolders are created using the context menu of the parent folder:

Although, you can then use the mouse to drag folders inside other directories as you please. After creating the structure, you can start creating profiles in this manager. There is a special shortcut for this on the KeePass toolbar.

Go to the desired folder in the left panel, and then click on this shortcut with the key, or in the right panel from the context menu, select the “Add entry” item:

A window will open with a number of bookmarks. The main fields to fill out are on the first tab:

In most cases, the “Name” field needs to be filled in with the exact name of this password profile, but sometimes not (more on that later). In the “Name” field, enter your login, and in the next two fields, enter your password. If you are filling out a profile in Kipas for an existing account, then password generator you won’t need it, but if you simultaneously register on any site or program, then you will simply have to create a complex and hack-proof code.

For this purpose, Kipas uses a tool for auto-generating passwords for a new account (its complexity can be assessed in the “Quality” line), which can be configured using a button with a key and a gear called “Password Generation,” which you will find at the end of the “Repeat” line.

Same tool to create passwords of any complexity will also be available to you from the top menu of the manager: “Service” - “Generator”:

As you can see from the screenshot taken, you are free to set the length of the generated password in characters, as well as very finely tune which of the possible characters will participate in the generation. You can see approximate versions of the created codes on the “View” tab.

The tool is quite powerful and Passwords can be created extremely complex, but you still won’t need to remember them, and you won’t even have to type them on the keyboard - the smart KeePass manager will do everything for you, and thank you.

To ensure that all the settings you make here are always applied to the automatically generated passwords of the new profile, just click on the blue floppy disk at the end of the “Profile” line and select the option to save “Automatically generated passwords for new entries”.

Close the generator settings window and fill in the remaining fields "Link" and "Comments". For sites, filling them out will be prosaic, but for programs, for convenience, you will need to insert the path to the executable file of this software into the “Link” field (for example, cmd://"C:\Program Files\FileZilla FTP Client\filezilla.exe" ), and in the comments there is information about her (see the example with Filezila just below the text). All? Ah, no.

The most interesting thing about the Kipas manager is that passwords entered into it can be automatically inserted using the hotkeys Ctrl+Alt+A already mentioned just above (well, or what is more difficult - Ctrl+U and Ctrl+V). However, for all this splendor to work, you will now need to spend a little time setting up, so immediately in the new task window go to the tab "Auto dial":

What kind of animal? This thing allows you to explain to the program where exactly to insert the login and password on the required website page or program window. Imagine you place your mouse cursor in the initial field of the authorization form, which in most cases will consist of two fields for entering a login and a password, respectively. Then press Ctrl+Alt+A and these fields will be automatically filled in by KeePass. But in fact it obeys the rule:

(USERNAME)(TAB)(PASSWORD)(ENTER)

This means the following. The contents of the “Name” line are entered into the first field, then pressing the “Tab” key on the keyboard is simulated, which provokes a transition to the next field of the authorization form, where the password is inserted, and then pressing Enter on the keyboard is simulated. As a result, you safely enter the site or program. Shaitanama.

This is a standard combination that will work on most sites, but not all. I once wrote where I mentioned the popular Direct/Advert service. The teaser is wonderful, but now we’re not talking about that, but about some non-standard form of entry to this site:

How is she unusual? This is shown with an arrow in the screenshot. When using a standard combination, only the login will be entered, because the second field is a link to a request for a new password. Login to the site will not take place, but your mailbox You will receive an email asking you to change your password. What to do?

Create your own profile in Kipas for this site by checking the box in the previous screenshot in the “Use the following sequence” field and change it a little:

(USERNAME)(TAB)(TAB)(PASSWORD)(ENTER)

After pressing the AutoDial keys (Ctrl+Alt+A) nothing may happen, because KeePass manager will not find a match between the page opened in your browser and the profile that was created for it. What to do? Teach him, of course.

To do this, we look again at the previous screenshot and see a button there "Add" in the middle of the autodial settings window. You will click on it a little later, but first open in your browser the page where the login form is located or open the application (for example, filezilla) that will be the receiver of the auto-dial fields. Have you opened it?

Well, now go to Kipas and click on “Add”:

From the “Target Window” drop-down list, select the application you need (for example, the Opera browser with the authorization page on the Direct/Adverta website open in it), and then click on OK.

By the way, in the same window you can use a more expanded set of operants for more fine tuning behavior of the KeePass autodialer bot in the specified program, but this is for inquisitive minds (there is a link to help on Auto-Type, but it is in English).

Now, on the autodialer settings tab in the password manager, a corresponding line will appear that will rigidly link the site page with the authorization form (or application) to the password profile you created in Kipas:

All. Click OK. Go to the website page with the authorization form, place the cursor in the first field and use the treasured three-finger combination(Ctrl+Alt+A). Did it work? Well, that's great. I'm very happy for you.

How to Use KeePass with Filezilla

Great, but now let's get back to where I started all this - possibility of safe and comfortable work with sites via FTP through . As we saw just above, the password manager built into it is no good in terms of security.

Therefore, we open the Kipas program, create an FTP folder in its left column and create the first profile for logging into one of our sites using the FTP protocol.

There are several nuances in filling it out. In the first field we enter the address of the FTP server of your hoster, then enter the login and password issued to you to access the site via file protocol, but in the “Link” field we insert a command to open Filezilla, which is quite convenient.

For regular Windows it will be:

Cmd://"C:\Program Files\FileZilla FTP Client\filezilla.exe"

And for 64-bit:

Cmd://"C:\Program Files (x86)\FileZilla FTP Client\filezilla.exe"

It would be best to write the name of this connection in the comments field, because The FTP server address may not be very informative. Next, open the file and, without entering any passwords into it, go to the “Auto-dialer” tab of the KeePass program to link this profile to our FTP manager:

As was shown just above in the text, click the “Add” button, select FileZilla’s “Target window” from the drop-down list (it should be open at this moment and there should be nothing in the authorization fields), and then click OK.

The checkbox in the screenshot is in the “Inherit autodial from group” field, because I registered the necessary operants for the entire group (FTP folders) by selecting the “Change group” item from its context menu and going to the “Auto dial” tab:

You are free to change the checkbox in the “Use the following sequence” field and for each FTP connection enter a set of operants in the field located just below:

(TITLE)(TAB)(USERNAME)(TAB)(PASSWORD)(ENTER)

This doesn't change the essence. Now, to check, open FileZilla, place the cursor in the first line of the authorization field and press the three magic keys (Ctrl+Alt+A):

If you use the algorithm described just above to create several password profiles for different FTP connections, then when you press the magic keys you will be asked where you still want to log in (the same will be true for sites where you have several accounts):

Can use a different login algorithm. Open your program for storing passwords (kipas), go to the FTP folder, click once on the line with the desired FTP account and click Ctrl+U on the keyboard.

The focus is transferred to the Filezilla program that opens (that’s why the link cmd://"C:\Program Files\FileZilla FTP Client\filezilla.exe" was added), but without going anywhere else you return to KeePass and press the key combination Ctrl+V. As a result, the authorization fields in FileZilla will be filled in automatically and you will have access to your site. Which method of automatically entering a password is more convenient is up to you to decide.

And finally, you can simply copy your login and password to the clipboard, double-clicking on them in turn in the Kipas window (name and password in the columns). Double-clicking on the title of an entry will open a window for editing it, and double-clicking in the “Link” column will activate the transition to it.

Password retention period on the clipboard is set in the settings (Tools - Settings - Security - Automatic buffer clearing) and by default is 12 seconds.

So, and a couple more steps that will allow remove all traces of passwords entered into FileZilla from KeePass. The fact is that this FTP manager stores the history of entered passwords for some time and a certain number. To eliminate this incident, you will have to do a number of simple manipulations.

First, delete the sitemanager.xml already mentioned above (see its storage folder above). Secondly, you will need to slightly change the program settings.

To do this, find the file fzdefaults.xml.example in the c:\Program Files (x86)\FileZilla FTP Client\docs\ directory and rename it, removing the ending in fzdefaults.xml . Transfer this file to the folder with FileZilla (c:\Program Files (x86)\FileZilla FTP Client) and, opening it for editing in Notepad++, delete all its contents, replacing it with this:

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Save the changes, then go to the folder C:\Users\[account name]\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla\ and delete the recentservers.xml and filezilla.xml files there. That’s it, your FileZilla will now not tell anyone what passwords were entered into it automatically from the KeePass manager. This is what needed to be implemented.

More about KeePass

During its long existence this program has acquired a wealth of functionality that you could write a small book about. There are many possibilities, but not all of them are obvious. In addition to the built-in functionality, there is expandable by installing plugins, which can be downloaded from the official page.

Plugins are installed by simply copying them to the program directory and then restarting it. The mentioned Favicon Downloader adds the “Download Favicon” item to the context menu, clicking on which will download favicons from the Internet for those sites whose passwords you store in this program. As a result, the visibility of working with it greatly increases.

There is also a whole galaxy of plugins that work in tandem with the corresponding extensions in the browser, allowing, as I understand it, to raise the level of interaction between these programs to a qualitatively higher level. high level. However, in practice I still don’t understand why this is all needed. If anyone is in the know, please describe the advantages and principles of using these extensions in browsers. Thank you.

Yes, there are still plenty programs for mobile phones and tablets, who can use the KeePass password database, which you shared via DropBox or Google Drive. For my beloved iPad, this program is called KyPass.

In Kipas settings you can activate it to launch along with the start of Windows. To do this, from the top menu you need to select “Service” - “Settings” and go to the “Integration” tab:

There you can also change the keyboard shortcuts for autodialing and calling the manager window. On the tab "Additionally" you can make dozens more settings, including checking the “Run in minimized and locked state” box, which can be useful:

In addition, KeePass has the ability to create your own filters for events and assign actions to them. This is done in the menu “Tools” - “Triggers” (?). If you have ever set up filters in mail program, then you can easily figure out what’s what. However, I will give an example. Let's say that we want to automatically save newly entered or changed passwords into the database.

To do this, select “Tools” - “Triggers” from the top menu of the program, and in the window that opens, click on the “Add” button:

Now you will need to give the rule a name and then go through the Events, Conditions and Actions tabs one by one. On each of these tabs, click on the “Add” button and select the following options from the drop-down list (then click on OK), if you want, so that the database is saved automatically.

For Events, the user interface state has been updated, for Conditions, the Current database contains unsaved changes, and for Actions, Save the current password database. Now save all this by clicking on the “Done” button and enjoy the result. For this, allow me to take my leave.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

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