PassPack: Online Privacy Manager

By Rev2 Team July 27th, 2007

Pass what? Simply the coolest, most secure place to store the thousands of passwords you generate per day: PassPack. Currently in a stable beta v4, they opened up their beta v5 on Wednesday and within a few hours they closed the doors. But that doesn’t mean you can’t take full advantage of the their service today–for free.

PassPack claims to be the first “Online Privacy Manager.” That’s certainly the first time we’ve come across that phrase. The key to their security measures is in their name. Your information is encrypted within a “pack” using government-grade AES encryption. To access your account you sign on, and then to access your information, you must “unpack” the data with a predetermined pass-phrase of your choosing. There are more security features than your average software password program understands.

So, this isn’t “one password to rule them all” — it’s more like, “one password, a p ass phrase, and Government encryption to rule them all.” Another killer feature is that they give you a “disposable login” that works only once and then expires. This allows you to login from an insecure location and not worry about it. And that’s just version 4. Version 5 promises much more.

Enjoy your Friday and happy password keeping!

http://www.rev2.org Brandon

Good find, I am going to give this a shot. I was on the phone with my bank the other day for almost an hour trying to get my password changed because I forgot it.
http://www.rev2.org Brandon

I am sorry, your password must include a capital letter (e.g. A,B,C,Z) a lower case letter (e.g. a, b, c, z), a symbol (e.g. ^,&,*,$), a number (e.g. 4,5,6,9), the name of your little siblings (e.g. Paco, Juan, Geraldo, Mark), a disease (e.g. ebola, HIV), the name of your favorite band (e.g. RHCP, Incubus) and your name spelled backwards with a “3″ instead of “e” (e.g. tr3b).
Josh Miller

Brandon – I know! Fun times!
http://www.rev2.org/ Sid Yadav

I thought spelling my name spelled backwards with a “1″ was pretty tricky actually
http://www.blahblahtech.com/ Wayne Smallman

So who’s going to buy them first?

My money is on Google, but I’m betting Microsoft won’t be behind the door…
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/sherryscary/ sherryscary

Google owns. I bet 3GB’s
Nick

haha wow i cant believe you found that! thats pretty cool…i going to have to try this one out, but on the other hand you wouldnt want somebody that you didnt know storing all your passwords for you would you? i mean someone designed this site and they can withdraw from any account that you moght have that password in….just saying.

-Nick
Josh Miller

Nick,

They would not be able to extract your data. In fact, if you forget your pack key, they cannot recover your data whatsoever.

Their encryptions make it so that only you can unencrypt your data using a key that only you know — they don’t store that information.

It’s like making a lock that has only one key and you have the key.

Josh
https://www.passpack.com Tara Kelly (PassPack)

@Josh
Thanks for this write up – love it! The phrase “Online Privacy Manager” is a look into the future. PassPack will be slowly expanding beyond just passwords and online *password* manager doesn’t leave much room for growth. That make sense?

@Nick,
Josh is right, we aren’t able to read the data that you choose to store with us. Here’s how that works:
http://passpack.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/password-security-packing-keys/

@All
If you’d like to give PassPack a try, check out his Getting Started Guide:
http://passpack.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/passpack-getting-started-guide/

Cheers to all,
Tara

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