Here's what I've found
My current interest is to port my ewallet password records into my new Mac and possibly to continue to use eWallet on my Windows machines. In the long term I’ll be looking for compatibility with Android, Pad and maybe iPhone/iPad.
So I’ve trawled through this forum and others, and come up with a list of available software. I’ve not considered Windows Mobile, Palm, and other OS’s but I threw in Linux for fun.
These are the nine packages I identified and the platforms they run on. See Table 1
Secretbox 2.2 claims Lion compatibility. None of the others do yet. Since Lion is less than a month away I’ll be waiting for it to release before testing and purchasing.
Ginz runs under Adobe AIR
Table 1 Password Manager Packages June 2011
You can assume that if multiple platforms are supported then you can transfer data between them. But not all of these packages will run a synchronization across all the platforms, and the complexities of 5 or more platforms are more than I was prepared to document. I suggest you work up your own matrix for your needs and check out the capabilities against that.
For the Mac I’ve checked out the protection system (probably the same on all platforms), whether there is a trial version, and what can be imported and exported. See Table 2.
Table 2 Password Manager Packages for Mac June 2011
A short history of encryption. First there was DES, but it was seen as inadequate, Blowfish was developed as an open source project by Bruce Schneier and identified as a major improvement. Then US Government held a competition for a new algorithm. Twofish was a development from Blowfish, and came in second to AES which was adopted. It seems that they are both essentially uncrackable, and speed advantages depend on which bit level is compared. I don’t see any particular advantages one over another, except that Blowfish based packages are likely to have older code than AES ones (maybe), and Keepass sounds like a kludge.
The import and export capabilities may not be complete, but the table shows what their web site lists.
Areas which I have not covered:
Password generator (most provide one, but it is of no interest to me)
Securing text files (some will allow files to be imported and protected)
Autocomplete: some do
Mac Keychain interfacing
Clipboard security (cleansing clipboard after a cut and paste)
Hierarchical passwords (master password and subsidiary passwords for Groups etc)
Web backup
That's all folks...............