Changes for version 1.3.2

Changes for version 1.3.1

Mac OS 9 features a new version of the Keychain Manager (v2) and some modifications were made to Web Confidential to support it. Version 1.3.1 fixes a bug that would occur when importing from the Keychain under Mac OS 9.

Please note that Web Confidential for Windows is now also available. Web Confidential for Palm OS is under construction. Please e-mail if you want to be notified when the beta release is ready for testing.

Introduction

Many improvements in version 1.3:

• Support for Apple's Keychain
• Web Confidential application's icon has been redesigned
• The encryption algorithm has been made even stronger by adding the One-Way Hash function SHA-1

Improvements

This version uses the SHA-1 algorithm in the program logic to check if a password file is correctly decrypted. According to Bruce Schneier in his book Applied Cryptography: "There are no known cryptographic attacks agains SHA", pg. 445.

Keychain

Web Confidential has been made Keychain-savvy. Keychain-savvyness is enabled via an option in the General tab of Preferences. A new icon is drawn right to the User ID field of a Web Confidential card (see below). The icon tells you if the data of the current card is also present in the Keychain.

• An icon with the + sign means that this item is not in the Keychain. You may press it and the data of the card will be added to the Keychain.

• A Keychain icon means the item is present in the Keychain. Pressing the icon updates the Keychain with the data of the card.

Import from the Keychain

Under File is an Import Keychain command. It will read in all Internet passwords not allready in the password file.

Lock/Unlock the Keychain

You can Lock and Unlock the Keychain via the Edit menu.

You can also let Web Confidential unlock the Keychain automatically. Take these steps:

• Enable the option "Unlock Keychain At Open" in General/Preferences.
• Create a card in the Password Manager category
• Enter "Keychain" in the name field and then enter your passphrase for the Keychain in the password field.

  Please note that this changed in version 1.3.1. Previously, you also needed to supply a User ID. This changed, however, with Mac OS 9.

When this password file is opened, the Keychain will be automatically unlocked.

Vice versa this procedure is also possible. If you store the password for your password file in the Keychain, you will not be prompted for your password when you want to open that file.

To enable this, you need to store your password for the password file in the Keychain. You do that as follows:

After you press the Key button, you will see a new checkbox named "Add to Keychain". If you enable this option, Web Confidential will store the password in the Keychain. Web Confidential will not ask you for a password for a file when the Keychain is open.

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