Minnesota Nice??

I received a fun email this morning, in which the sender asked if they might use my Java implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) . It is rather fun for a 6-year-old program, written for a class, to be of use to someone else. That ranks up there with previous requests to use my even older Mandelbrot and Julia Set applet from both an undergraduate student and a teacher.

As I have been creating new accounts for myself on multiple websites in recent months, I have been taking lessons from the widely-reported story from August 2012 of how Gizmodo contributor Mat Honan's multiple accounts with shared passwords had been hacked . I have used different, lengthy passwords with multiple randomly-generated characters for each site. However, such lengthy passwords are impossible for me to remember, and I would not want to use the even less secure method of writing all of them down. I had heard multiple computer security experts recommend using such different, randomly-generated passwords and storing them in a password store which would require remembering only one master password. Ideally, for greater security, a key file would be used for the encrypted password store. In seeking out such a password store that was free, open source, and available across multiple platforms, I came across KeePass . The site's download page has the Windows download, as w