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.
Key Features
- 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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