Password Safe, Good – Password Gorilla, Better

I wanted to provide everyone with an update on how things are going with Password Safe. While Password Safe is a great program, I have found that the “Gorilla” is the bigger, badder animal…

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I blogged about this great program that allows you to securely store your passwords on multiple computers. In doing some further research I found a program that is based off of Password Safe called “Password Gorilla“. I had been using the Java version of Password Safe both on my PC and Mac. One of the things that bothered me with the Java version is that it was sometimes slow and sluggish performance wise, on my Mac Password Safe was leaving weird .tmp files in my Documents folder, and I also wanted something I could easily put on a thumb drive (meaning the entire program) so I could get my passwords from any computer if I needed to.

I am happy to report that Password Gorilla is running off of my USB thumb drive (Password Gorilla for Windows is just a .exe file), with my password database on the same drive. When I want my passwords on my Mac, I plug the USB drive in and fire up the OS X version of Password Gorilla and open up my password database stored on my USB thumb drive. Very easy. There is also a Linux version (using tlckit) which I still need to try out. If anyone has played with Password Gorilla in Linux, please add your comments.