Who is the best password manager in the age of interconnection?

As if praising KeePass Password safe has been going on for years, this is a free open source storage software that can be used to store all the passwords and related notes on your Web page. You can sync your keepass on different devices, and we also recommend that readers store their databases in Dropbox. However, we have recently been curious to compare with KeePass, another well-known browser password manager LastPass as a one-stop solution, whether the use of more advanced. For this month, we have invited two trial participants to conduct a head-to-head test.

First round showdown: setting

KeePass is a very straightforward database. After selecting your master password, you only need to add a new entry by entering or copying the information that you pasted in the response, where you can copy and paste the information including the username, password, and related notes. You can choose to group the information, and you can use the icons to organize the groupings to better identify them.

You can enter all the similar information into your LastPass in the same way; In addition, after installing the browser plug-in, you can still extract the URL and as your favorite site to retain the appropriate login information, the process, the LastPass icon will always appear in the browser bar. It is this convenient operation that allows LastPass to occupy a place in the integrated database of users ' online websites and accounts.

Winner: LastPass

The second round of confrontation: security

The user's data in the KeePass will be securely stored in the database, only a user's master password can be opened (or a file similar to the good shield, stored in the user's USB drive), users can choose to encrypt the data in both ways. The entire database uses the default AES 256-bit encryption technology, or the Twofish 256-bit encryption technology. Each password can be randomly generated and has a high confidentiality capability. Open source KeePass has a very high confidentiality, integration, so that users can rest assured that the use of this service.

And LastPass also uses 256-bit AES, and in your local computer to complete the encryption and decryption work, so it and LastPass server storage mode is fundamentally different. Like KeePass, LastPass also prompts you whether the password needs to be more difficult and, if you wish, generates a random password for you, but this operation is not tied directly to your vault entry, so it is not as keepass as it is convenient. So the latter won this round of battle.

Winner: KeePass

The third round of the Duel: Auto Fill

The KeePass and LastPass two services provide automatic filling, which is handy when you log on to certain sites. In KeePass, the first time you right-click a database entry to enter the open URL, right-click again to complete the autofill. The user name and password can be entered automatically under the default settings. For multiple page landings or other special instructions, the user is required to create a command string, which obviously takes a lot of time and effort.

In LastPass, you can go directly to the URL and complete the login by simply clicking one click. In addition, according to the official introduction, the user can theoretically save the login data on each page to automatically log in at the next login, but in practice, we find this operation is still a little cumbersome. However, for the automatic filling function, we still think LastPass better use some.

Winner: LastPass

Fourth round: compatibility of different equipment

On the face of it, it seems that browser-based LastPass should dominate this competition. Because you can log on to a service from any device on the Internet, and any data changes you make on any device will automatically sync to the cloud. However, the KeePass data can also be stored in the cloud through a medium, such as Dropbox, so the two password managers have the same function on the synchronization function. But KeePass allows users to access an unlimited number of Android or iOS devices for free, while LastPass requires a yearly fee of 12 dollars (about 73 yuan) a year for each access to a single device.

Winner: KeePass

Fifth round: Life expectancy

Since we want to store passwords on the device, the length of the storage time is naturally an important factor. The KeePass stored locally seems to be more reliable than the LastPass store in the cloud, because it is not sure which day the cloud server will occur. For data backup, two password storage supports the export of data for other forms of backup. Of course, we can not ignore the point is that the LastPass as an open source project may be slightly more vulnerable than commercial-purpose KeePass. But that still does not negate the reliability of KeePass's local data, so the winner of the round is keepass.

Winner: KeePass

Final results

LastPass's operation is very convenient, you only need to bind your browser, you can save or access your data anytime, no matter which device you use. But to talk about security, we think it is still KeePass won the final victory, because of its open source features, free mobile phone applications, and can store data in Dropbox, all make it in the actual use of safe and reliable.