$Id: README.txt,v 1.9 2005/01/15 11:07:14 ronys Exp $ Introduction: ============= Password Safe is a password database utility. Like many other such products, commercial and otherwise, it stores your passwords in an encrypted file, allowing you to remember only one password (the "safe combination"), instead of all the username/password combinations that you use. What makes Password Safe different? Three things: 1. Simplicity: Password Safe is designed to do one thing, and to do it well. Start the application, enter your "combination", double-click on the right entry - presto - the password is now on your clipboard,ready for pasting. 2. Security: The original version was designed and written by Bruce Schneier - 'nuff said. 3. Open Source: The source code for the project is available for inspection. For more information, see http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net Password Safe currently runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP, as well as Microsoft's PocketPC. Support for additional platforms is planned for future releases. Downloading: ============ The latest & greatest version of Password Safe may be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019 Non-English Versions: ===================== A French version of the help file may be found in http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/pwsafefr.zip (Thanks to Laurent Masson). A Russian version of the help file may be found in http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/pwsaferu.zip (Thanks to Maxim Tikhonov). A German version of the help file may be found in http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/pwsafege.zip (Thanks to Sebastian Juergens). An Italian version of the help file may be found in http://home.datacomm.ch/winzozz/passwordsafe.htm (Thanks to Stefano) Kimmo 'Yodakoski' Koskinen has translated both the help file and the entire PasswordSafe (version 2.07) application to Finnish! These may be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/7yqdv and http://tinyurl.com/5z3h3, respectively. The source files are available from http://tinyurl.com/5wt66. If anyone is interested in doing such work in other languages, please let me (https://sourceforge.net/users/ronys) know. Installation: ============= Nothing special. No "Setup", no dependencies, no annoying wizard, no need to sacrifice a goat and/or reboot your computer. Just extract the files (using WinZip, for example) to any directory, double-click on the Pwsafe.exe icon,and that's it. "Advanced" users may want to create a shortcut to their desktop and/or Start menu. License: ======== Password Safe is available under the restrictions set forth in the standard "Artistic License". For more details, see the LICENSE file that comes with the package. Helping Out: ============ Please report bugs via the project's bug tracking form, at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=41019&atid=429579 (you might want to browse the list, to see if the issue hasn't been reported already). Requests for features and enhancements should be submitted to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) page, at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=41019&atid=429582 You can also post questions, suggestions, rants, raves, etc. to the Help or Open Discussion forums, at https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=41019 If you wish to contribute to the project by writing code and/or documentation, please drop a note to the developer's mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-devel New releases are announced on the passwordsafe-announce mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-announce) Last but not least: PasswordSafe is and will always remain an open source project, free for and redistribution. However, donations to the project will help me justify the time and effort I spend in maintaining and improving this utility. In addtion, donations to the project help maintain SourceForge, the hosting site. If you wish to donate, please follow this link: https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=41019 Release Notes: ============== For information on the latest features, bugfixes and known problems, see the ReleaseNotes.txt file that comes with the package. Credits: ======== - The original version of Password Safe was written by Mark Rosen, and was freely downloadable from Conterpane Lab's website. Thanks to Mark for writing a great little application! Following Mark, it was maintained by "AYB", at Counterpane. Thanks to Counterpane for deciding to open source the project. - Jim Russell first brought the code to SourceForge, did some major cleaning up of the code, set up a nice project and added some minor features in release 1.9.0 - The current release has been brought to you by: Andrew Mullican, Edward Quackenbush, Gregg Conklin, Graham Ullrich, and Rony Shapiro. Karel (Karlo) Van der Gucht also contributed some of the password policy code and some GUI improvements for 1.92. - Emilijan Mirceski did the new graphics for 2.0. - Maxim Tikhonov translated the online help to Russian. - Finally, thanks to the folks at SourceForge for hosting this project. $Log: README.txt,v $ Revision 1.9 2005/01/15 11:07:14 ronys Update non-English list, add reference to donations. Revision 1.8 2004/11/24 16:21:13 ronys Added link to Italian help, plus unix2dos'ed Revision 1.7 2004/09/25 08:04:31 ronys Added pointer to French help file. Revision 1.6 2004/03/31 04:44:31 ronys Announce availability of German version of online help Revision 1.5 2004/02/17 21:11:06 ronys Updated for 2.0 Revision 1.4 2003/05/28 08:29:04 ronys Corrected credits Revision 1.3 2003/05/14 14:49:55 ronys post-1.92 merge into main trunk Revision 1.2.2.1 2003/05/13 13:40:13 ronys 1.92 release Revision 1.2 2003/04/30 13:20:14 ronys Listed supported platforms Revision 1.1 2003/04/29 14:22:32 ronys First versions of README and Release Notes under CVS for 1.91