11Feb KeePass on the iPhone and DropBox
I like to use KeePass on my laptop. I find it is an easy enough way to create random passwords and NOT remember them. The problem I have is that when I go to use that same website or app on my iPhone I need that random password. Typing that password on my iPhone is not a trivial task.
Enter iKeePass. A .99 download and you can just point it at your database and you have keepass on your iPhone.
Not so fast
First. How do you get your database on your iPhone? You need to download it to the keepass application at least once (and then each time it changes).
This is where dropbox comes in. Just copy your database file to your public folder in dropbox. Right click the file and copy the public url under the dropbox menu and email that to yourself. Open your email in your iPhone and you are set. Enter everything except the filename in the server for ikeepass and the filename when you press the + for add.
What if I have a kdbx and not a kdb file?
Yeah I had this problem too. Looks like KeePass version 2.X uses kdbx and 1.X uses kdb. iKeePass does not work with kdbx yet. The good news is in KeePass 2.X you can export to kdb. This post almost gives you everything you need sans the iKeePass stuff.
For the iKeePass parts, the developer has done a good job of detailing it at his site here:
http://ikeepass.de/bl0g/?p=175
Cool AND secure. Now if my keepass database password was not 32 characters long I would be set….
October 13th, 2010 at 9:31 am
I’m almost there, but can’t find “public url under the dropbox menu”. I can do “previous versions”, “Move” “Copy to”, but none of them generate a URL. ??
November 16th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I wish this syncing was just handled by keepass or an addon. . I really like Keepass but need it to syncronize back to my laptop from my iphone as well. . . .This manual syncing is for the birds. . . Until it is fixed i think I will try to find another product.