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This completely invalidates the hash value the hackers have in their hands. But since the theory exists, it is easily thwarted by changing your master password. This is still extremely unlikely, given the hashing algorithm that LastPass uses.

#KYPASS CHANGE MASTER PASSWORD PASSWORD#

With one exception: if your master password was WEAK – as in, say, one of the top 1,000,000 most common passwords in general, then **in theory** the hackers could mount some kind of a brute force attempt to determine your passwords. Having the hash does not allow the hackers to gain access to your LastPass account. ( ) That is NOT NOT NOT the same as actually having the password – which were NOT stolen because LastPass doesn’t store your password – only the hashed value of the password. The hashes of user’s master passwords were stolen. As a result, people – people that visit Ask Leo! – panic and make ill-conceieved decisions based on inaccurate information. My frustration is that the general technology press likes to make end-of-world headlines and thus overstate the impact (or at least imply that the impact is far greater than it actually is). By that I mean that you and I are not at any significantly additional risk than we were before the hack. My comments stem from the fact that I believe that, while this is of course serious – any breach is – there’s actually little impact on users of LastPass. I have no vested interest in LastPass, and if you choose to move to a different system I certainly won’t object. Not sure what you’re looking for from me. This is a security measure that would alert you to a password change that you did not initiate.ĭepending on your settings, and how many other locations in which you have Lastpass in use, you may need to re-login to Lastpass using your new master password. Shortly after making the change, you should receive an email that notifies you that a change was made. The phrase doesn’t need to make sense in fact, it’s probably better if it doesn’t, as long as it’s easy for you to remember. Multi-word, because that’s easier to remember. Pass phrase, because it’s longer which is more secure. I recommend using a multi-word passphrase. Click on Change Master Password.Įnter your old password, to confirm that you have the authority to make the change, and then enter your new master password twice. It should come up with the “General” tab selected. Log in with your current LastPass password.Īfter your vault is displayed, click on Account Settings. Go to on the web and click on the log-in link. However, to err on the side of caution, they are recommending that we all change our master passwords. It’s important to note that no user accounts have been hacked, and no unencrypted user account information has been compromised. No Comments and Pings are allowed at this moment.As I write this, the folks at LastPass recently announced that they saw unexplained traffic on their network and could potentially have seen some of their internal data compromised. I decided to switch from SVN to Git and away from SourceForge soĭevelopment now takes place on Gitorious: I won’t be able to implement all these features alone so please contact me, drop a message on the forum or visit the IRC channel #keepassx on. If you are interested in getting involved with the KeePassX development, now would be the perfect time. There is no guarantee that they will be implemented. So don’t ask me about a release date or the status of these features. This rewrite will take time especially since I’m the only developer at the moment.

Import and export other file formats (especially KeePass 1).

User interface that works well with small displays like the N900.

This should include gpg-agent/ssh-agent integration and support for the upcoming secret-storage specification.

Integration with various components on Linux.

Database synchonisation through various file transfer protocols (e.g.

I don’t plan to make another 0.* release (especially not one with new features) so this will have to wait until KeePassX 2.

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There is already an unofficial KeePassX version on the forum that supports auto-type on Mac OS X.

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Auto-Type support for Mac OS X and Windows.

The goal for now is to gain feature parity with KeePassX 0.4.3 but I also have some ideas for new features (think of it as a long term roadmap):

The main motivation behind this is the old codebase of KeePassX 0.* that has become unmaintainable over the years and support for the KeePass 2 (.kdbx) file format. As I briefly mentioned on the forum I’m currently rewriting KeePassX from scratch.

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