PASSPACK - Online Password Manager

Over a year ago I wrote an article for TekByBob.com to talk about my use of the web application PassPack. Like most individuals in the technology profession my many clients with many applications and devices that I support, I have a “zillion” passwords and accounts to keep track of. Over the course of time as the number of passwords and accounts I had to keep track of simply was a nuisance. Occasionally it was even a disaster when memory failed me and I was unable to remember a client password.

I needed a password manager solution that was device independent, location independent, and beyond military strength secure. My search of the Internet turned up a new offering (new at that time) called PassPack. I signed up for the free beta offering from PassPack and my password management worries and problems have been eliminated. I have hundreds of passwords stored in PassPack (even if it were an invitation to the world to go and hack my password manager, which it is not, I am not worried as PassPack is the most secure web application I have ever used) and over time PassPack has morphed into not only my password manager but also my software serial number manger too. In fact now I store any piece of critical information such as CC numbers, bank account numbers, etc. I pretty much store anything that requires extreme security to control access to that data but ideally can be accessible from anywhere. PassPack is my Internet based lock-box!

Obviously data that is stored on the Internet has to be secure, particularly data that is along the lines of personal financial information. PassPack uses AES encryption along with technology that has a two stage security access model of both a password and a “Key” that releases the data stored from within the online vault. In addition Anti-Phishing is built in to the login sequences and can be customized by machine one may access PassPack from. A complete description of all of the security items used within the PassPack offering can be see here!

Since I was one of the early users of PassPack, I don’t recall exactly but I believe when I first started using PassPack it was in a Beta 1 offering. Today PassPack is in Beta 5 and a number of useful and well done features have been added. Perhaps the most useful of the additions to PassPack are the One Click login features as well as the Offline, through Google Gears, instance for that rare and likely never needed moment when you can’t access the Internet. Since I first started using PassPack, upgrades, additional features, and application robustness has continued to flow into the offering. PassPack is not a static Web2.0 toss up and lets see if it sticks application. This is truly a product that has the devotion and attention of it’s creators; it gets better and better with every Beta upgrade instance. (Thanks Tara Lyn Kelly and Francesco Sullo!)

Currently PassPack is free for the first 100 entries. In addition there is a very attractive offer for pre-paying an account in advance of their soon to be offered fee based upgrade accounts. PassPack is an incredible web application that easily ranks in my top five list! But I am not the only one who thinks so, PassPack has made the CNET list of Webware applications to be voted on as one of the best Webware applications available. Go sign up for PassPack today and don’t forget to click on the link to vote for PassPack as one of the best Webware applications. PassPack deserves it! Vote for PassPack here!