Title: Review: PasswordsPro
Slug: review-passwordspro
Date: 2009-05-31 00:22:00
Author: Kartones
Lang: en
Tags: Security, App Reviews
Description: A review of the software application 'PasswordsPro'.

 <p>Time for another review, <a href="http://www.passwordspro.com/">PasswordsPro</a>. PasswordsPro is a "passwords safe" tool, similar to another application I use, <strong>Flexwallet/eWallet</strong>. It allows storing sensitive passwords (like website or email account ones) in an encrypted file.</p>  <p><img src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/kartonesblog/passwordspro_01.png" title="screenshot" alt="screenshot" mce_src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/kartonesblog/passwordspro_01.png"> </p>  <p>The interface is very simple: We choose a passwords file, enter it's master password, and then manage the list of passwords and secure notes (more on this later). There is no categorization so with a huge list of passwords it might get a bit messy, but nothing we can't control by adding more info to the names.</p>  <p><img src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/kartonesblog/passwordspro_02.png" title="screenshot" alt="screenshot" mce_src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/kartonesblog/passwordspro_02.png"></p>  <p>The info for each password is the typical as we can see in the screenshot just above. There's no type/scope options, but we can store notes for each individual password (and so, use this as a manual "custom fields" section). </p>  <p>Apart from passwords, we can store "secure notes" too.</p>  <p><img src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/kartonesblog/passwordspro_03.png" title="screenshot" alt="screenshot" mce_src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/kartonesblog/passwordspro_03.png"></p>  <p>As the name hints, they are just a list of text notes. Simple, but not available on other password safe programs, and interesting to not only store passwords but sensitive info.</p>  <p><img src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/kartonesblog/passwordspro_04.png" title="screenshot" alt="screenshot" mce_src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/kartonesblog/passwordspro_04.png"></p>  <p>Apart from this features, PasswordsPro supports inactivity protection, another usual feature that allows to auto-close the application after not being used for a given time (so you don't have to worry leaving opened your safe lists). </p>  <p> </p>  <p> </p>  <p> </p>  <p>And the last nice feature, the application supports being used as a portable app from a usb disk, just copying the .exe, a .dll and your license file.</p>  <p> </p>  <p>My main complaint about this application is that I haven't found any details of what encryption algorithms are used, just "<i>PasswordsPro uses encryption algorithms that are standard in the industry having a strong level of security</i>". And that is not very comforting.</p>
