PassPack Desktop Client Built on AIR

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PassPack is a service that lets you store a bunch of passwords for safe keeping so that you don’t have to remember them – something that can be pretty handy in this web 2.0 world. There’s a good writeup on WebWare that explains how they keep everything encrypted on the server so that you’ll be safe even if someone breaks into PassPack’s servers. For a while they were using Gears as a way to store those passwords on the client but they’ve just recently switched over to using Adobe AIR.

It’s a great example of the encrypted local store and there’s a good review on Profy. I’m sorry we don’t have the encrypted local store working on Linux yet. Hopefully soon.

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  • http://www.passpack.com Tara Kelly

    Thanks. Indeed, the lack of encrypted local store is what’s holding us back from releasing on Linux.

    Hopefully soon.
    Cheers!
    Tara

  • James

    > There’s a good writeup on WebWare
    > that explains how they keep
    > everything encrypted on the server so
    > that you’ll be safe even if someone
    > breaks into PassPack’s servers.

    This has to be the most ill-conceived piece of software I have ever heard of. Store all my passwords on their server? Now I’ve heard it all.

    It doesn’t matter what they’ve done to protect my passwords. It only takes the tiniest oversight to give a hacker access to a vast number of passwords, perhaps including banking details, ebay accounts and workplace logins.

    The insanity of this irresponsible program just boggles the mind.