Password Magagers

[gvstn]

After this new Ebay breach, I am finally going to get serious about using strong passwords. I've read lots of articles and comparisons and think that I will use Keepass as my password manager. However, I tend to put these things off and I see that Keepass is not the most user friendly. One that does sound user friendly and that I would probably prefer is Dashlane. It has a good user interface and integrates with my FF and will nudge me to change passwords as I sign into sites and show me my progress as I go along (ie. changed from 10% secure to 40% secure and so on). It seems like I could use this to get my security percentage up and then eventually export my new password list into Keepass without too many problems except for perhaps a few oddball sites. This is my plan.

I'm just wondering if anyone had a bad experience with Dashlane? I am only concerned because it will store my passwords in "the cloud" (although encrypted) and that most hits on Google sound like advertisements. There have been very positive articles in The Wall Street Journal and USAToday about how good and secure it is. Then Google-News results basically talk about a very successful venture capital seeking campaign. I'm a little leery when all the major news outlets start championing a particular internet/computer service such as when they all jumped on Facebook and Twitter for no real news-worthy reason a few years ago.

Keepass will be my eventual manager but I'd like to know if any one has any reservations about Dashlane before I turn over my sites and password info to them during the transition. Thanks for any input.

[RandalU]

1. Sticky Password

I don't think it is that much of a problem since everything is in the cloud these days, so I think Dashlane is just fine as Lastpass. What I use is Sticky Password since these guys are still available in the offline mode as well if you want to, but I have switched to their online since I want to sync to my iPhone and doing it manually was just crazy.

[gopiscrap]

3. Welcome to DU

[TygrBright]

2. I use Keepass, but recently I ADDED LastPass

Keepass is available offline, it's highly configurable, and I prefer its user interface. However, it's not optimal for someone who works from several computers, as it can't really sync across machines effectively. (Yes, they'll tell you they can, but maybe I'm just not geeky enough to make it work.)

What I do now is use LastPass "dynamically," and DL a copy of the database file in xml to keep my Keepass DB up to date about every other week or so (oftener if I've been having to establish a lot of new user profiles for something.) LastPass is a bit harder for me to manage as a "reference" tool (their file tree options are not as configurable as Keepass) but it's fairly seamless in-use, keeps my credentials accessible no matter where I'm working, and after some twiddling, I got it to generate passwords the way I want them.

helpfully,
Bright

[gvstn]

4. Thanks for the detailed response.

I think I am going to go ahead and try Dashlane because the interface looks fairly friendly. I'll see if it fits my needs.
Lastpass is another alternative and if I don't like Dashlane then I will go ahead and take a look to see if it will work for me.

I really only use one computer for 95% of browsing and password entry so Keepass should be fine for me eventually. I just think some of Dashlane's prompts to change passwords will get me to actually begin the process that I have put off for far too long.

Thanks for the tips on exporting a browser based password manager's database into Keepass. I'm sure I will need that function eventually if I settle on Keepass as my primary manager later.