There are many password managers for the PalmOS. Keyring is a good choice, because it is free and stores the passwords in a well encrypted database. Further development of the opensource program has slowed down(but still is running!!!), but I had no problems running it on a Tungsten E2.
Anyways, when Keyring starts up the first time, you need to set up a master password. The image above should give you a basic idea of the process; however, we recommend you to choose a very long password as this one saveguards all of the other passwords in KeyRing:
Keyrings main UI is very similar to the memo pad. The lock button at the top indicates KeyRings ‘lock state’. You can see the headers(name fields) of the entries without entering your password btw:
Clicking one of the entries forces you to enter the master password. By the way, the voiding option is optional, so if you are sure that nobody looks over your neck, feel free to disable it:
Each entry has four fields and a category. The name field is the text that will be displayed in the list above, it obviously isn’t encrypted. The account field contains your login data, the password field is obvious. The note field allows you to add remarks, and the changed field lets you remember when you last changed that password.
The passwords can be autogenerated with a password generator that generally works very well:
Keyring can auto-lock itself after a few seconds of inactivity:
In addition, Keyring lets you search for the name field with the global find facility of your handheld. In addition, you can search the full database by unlocking KeyRing and then clicking the global find icon.
This review covered version 1.2.3, the program’s web site is here. The distribution file was archived on Tamoggemon.com for your convenience. KeyRing consists of three files that take up about 100KB of RAM, it is recommended to leave them in RAM.
Overall, KeyRing is a great password manager that does what you need and leaves out the fluff. It stores your passwords in an encrypted database, so stealing that will not help. The password generator can come in handy if you want to create a safe password, global find can be helpful. Last but not least, rock-solid stability, 100kb of file size and a prize of 0.00$ are pretty obvious arguments…
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