KeePassXC – KeePass Cross-Platform Community Edition

KeePassXC is targeted at people with high demands on secure personal data management. It sports a light interface. The software is a cross-platform community fork of KeePassX.

The software lets users store their passwords securely and auto-type them into their everyday websites and applications.

The goal of the project is to extend and enhance KeePass new features and bugfixes to provide a feature-rich, fully cross-platform and modern open-source password manager.

KeePassXC uses the KeePass 2.x (.kdbx) password database format as its native file format.

Features include:

• Auto-Type on all three major platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS).
• Database is encrypted with the industry-standard AES (alias Rijndael) encryption algorithm using a 256 bit key
• Besides AES, there also Twofish and ChaCha22 encryption.
• File format compatibility with KeePass2, KeePassX, MacPass, KeeWeb and many others (KDBX 3.1 and 4.0)
• YubiKey challenge-response support.
• TOTP generation (including Steam Guard).
• CSV import from other password managers (e.g., LastPass)
• Command line interface.
• DEP and ASLR hardening for in-memory protection.
• Stand-alone password and passphrase generator.
• Password strength meter.
• Using website favicons as entry icons.
• Merging of databases.
• Automatic reload when the database changed on disk.
• SSH Agent feature. This acts as a client for an existing agent. It can automatically add SSH keys from your KeePassXC database to a running SSH agent when unlocked and remove them when locked. Most SSHv2 key types are supported (DSA, RSA and Ed25519), including encrypted keys.
• Support for Steam one-time passwords.
• DEP and ASLR for in-memory protection.
• Browser integration with KeePassHTTP-Connector for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome or Chromium, and passafari in Safari.
• Browser integration with KeePassXC-Browser using native messaging for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome or Chromium.
• File format compatibility with KeePass2, KeePassX, MacPass, KeeWeb and others
• Besides distribution specific packages for major Linux distribuitions, there are cross-distribution packages available in the form of AppImage, and snap. The software is also supported for macOS, and Windows.

Dependencies:

• hicolor-icon-theme.
• libgcrypt.
• argon2.
• libsodium.
• libxtst.
• qt5-x11extras.
• yubikey-personalization.
• curl.

Website: keepassxc.org
Support: Quickstart Guide, Blog, Wiki, GitHub code repository
Developer: KeePassXC team
License: GNU GPL v2 or v3

KeePassXC is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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