blog » December 3, 2008/clipperz

I used to pretty much only use my laptop, which was nice, because all my data was stored in one place. However, I now use a desktop computer at work. For the most part, it's OK, because I don't need to access much work stuff from home, and vice versa. However, occasionally it does happen, and so I'm thinking more about online services.

Clipperz is an online password (or other textual data) manager. Now for most security-conscious people, “online” and “password manager” do not go together. However, Clipperz uses JavaScript to encrypt all your data before sending it to their servers. That means that none of your data can be accessed by Clipperz (or anyone else) unless they know your password.

Even better, Clipperz is free/open-source software, which means that if you really don't trust them, you can audit their source code. Or run your own service.

I had thought about implementing something similar, but Clipperz does more-or-less what I want it to, plus some things that I hadn't thought of. The only downside is that I wish it would have better organizational features (in particular, a hierarchical organization).