Monday, January 4, 2010

Return to password manager and backups


It is possible to access Keychain from Java, but it might not work very well. Problem could be that only part of Keychain is accessible. Apple mentions it here.

If I could use the Bouncy Castle APIs to create a password store, then this program could read the archives on my mobile phone: TinyEncryptor

I tried MiniCommander which is already on the phone but it doesn't handle encrypted ZIP files.

I remember that I also found ways to export Keychains by automator or maybe it was applescript. But I can't remember where I put that info now... nor how to automate sending files to the phone via Bluetooth, automated by a script (check rest of this blog though).

Or, how about KeePass, open source, multi-platform - but is it as good as Keychain? Well, I guess I don't really use Keychain all that much, and it looks better than truecrypt because it structures data. I can also get it on my mobile. (There is another J2ME version but it's not looking as good.)

And some clever person has figured out how to get Auto-Type to basically work using some URL-handling trickery. Very clever.