![]() ![]() I configured the default global shortcut (CTRL-ALT-K) for bringing KeePass available in any context on my laptop and workstation, and with CTRL-C and CTRL-V I could easily copy and paste secrets between apps. And the best part is it didn’t cost me anything! Except the occasional, yearly donation I felt obligated to do for such a nice piece of software. I was able to access my passwords securely from my mobile devices (Android and iOS) and everything was in sync. It was encrypted with something that sounds pretty secure, ChaCha20. I had nearly 1,000 identities or other secrets stored in a single database. Over the years I’d become pretty good at managing and using KeePass for my needs. KeePass is free, as in you can voluntarily make a donation to keep the development efforts going. I’d dabbled with KeePass several times and while it was slightly rough on the edges I somehow stuck to it. Many systems at the time did not support Facebook authentication or Azure AD single sign-on so I had individual accounts for many systems. I had amassed a formidable collection of passwords. I left Microsoft exactly 10 years ago, and we started our own company with my brother. As an IT Pro I’ve used everything from text files stored on Windows Desktop to encrypted Excel files to post-it notes to reusing the same password (“R3member1”, “R3m3mber2”.) to forgetting my password and resetting it. I can’t quite remember when I started using a password manager, or which password manager it was at the time. One password to rule them all: Migrating to 1Password from KeePass and text files ![]()
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