KeePass 2.18 compatibility

Thanks to everyone that notified me of the problems with the recently released version of KeePass.

I hope to release a new version in 4-6 weeks with a beta available within a few weeks. In the mean time, the existing version of KeeFox will continue to work with KeePass 2.17. As with the previous [...]

KeePassRPC security and authentication

Another technical post here which explains why KeePassRPC is secure and how an application developer needs to handle authentication with the plugin to protect its users.

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KeePassRPC plugin technical overview

As announced earlier this year, KeePassRPC is a remote access interface plugin for KeePass Password Safe 2. This post is aimed at application developers; it outlines how you could use the plugin to enhance your user’s KeePass experience and references the latest version of the source code (0.8.5). There is currently no official release but you can see version 0.8.4 in use with KeeFox 0.8.4 and view the source code for 0.8.5 in the KeeFox SVN repository. Continue reading KeePassRPC plugin technical overview

KeePassRPC plugin

KeePassRPC provides a remote access interface for KeePass Password Safe 2. There is currently no official release but you can view the source code in the KeeFox repository. The most interesting files are:

DataExchangeModel.cs KeePassRPCService.cs KeePassRPCServer.cs

I’ll publish an more in depth introduction to those files soon.

The RPC system is an implementation of [...]

KISS

Who doesn’t prefer the simple option? Software developers are no different and security software is generally better the simpler it is so a sensible rule-of-thumb is to always KISS whenever possible, that’s Keep It Simple, Stupid! Therefore, I am pleased that in the past few weeks I’ve been able to simplify the most crucial [...]