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Are Password Managers Secure?  

Posted by: Guest Contributor    Tags:  aes, Apple, Ascendo, blowfish, cipher, DataVault, elcomsoft, encryption, hack, hackers, hash, keychain, passwords, security, SHA, vault    Posted date:  May 18, 2012  |  No comment



A recent study by Elcomsoft questioned whether sixteen popular password keepers live up to their claimed levels of protection.  The article uses many terms familiar to security experts but not to everyday users. At Ascendo, we received many emails from concerned customers. This article attempts to demystify some of the concepts discussed in the study to help non-security experts make informed decisions about password managers. A basic feature of most password managers is data encryption using ciphers such as AES and Blowfish. A cipher is simply a mathematical formula which uses a string of characters...


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