http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html After having bought a Motorola Milestone some time ago, I still missed something on it. I am using the Revelation password manager to store and manage all my passwords on my desktop and laptop. What always bothered me is the fact that I could not access these from my phone. This post describes in detail how I changed this circumstance by writing a PHP based conversion utility for Revelation password files. en CC by-nc-sa Jakob Westhoff Jakob Westhoff <jakob@westhoffswelt.de> Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:58:29 +0000 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:26:31 +0000 eZ Components Feed dev (http://ezcomponents.org/docs/tutorials/Feed) http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html#comment_9 Hi Simon, I don't have a PPA for the updated Revelation version. I really appreciate your offer to create one. You are very welcome to create and publish a PPA for this project :). If you do so please let me know about it. Cheers, Jakob Jakob Westhoff Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:41:59 +0000 http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html#comment_8 Hi there, Well done for spotting the AES key handling problems in Revelation. I also use Revelation heavily and would like to upgrade (using a launchpad PPA). Do you have your version of Revelation built on Launchpad? Or would you like me to do that for you? Simon Jagoe Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:41:12 +0000 http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html#comment_7 Hi. I also use revelation, and i recently got an android phone. Unfortunately your version of revelation doesn't work on either of the three distributions i've tried. On Centos 5.x and Debian Lenny i386 it doesn't compile and on Debian Squeeze it does compile with a bit of work, but then fails to start. (I forget the error msg, but i can't include it here as the HD just died -.-) In effect i can't transition my passwords from revelation to secrets. Could you enhance your revtrans to also convert from the original revelation file format? Thanks in advance Christoph Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:01:46 +0000 http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html#comment_6 Unfortunately PHP-5.3 is not in the Gentoo tree, not even as an unstable package yet. so I am on hold. I never wrote any PHP so don't hold your breath ;) Chris Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:43:44 +0000 http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html#comment_5 Revtrans architecture makes use of some loosely coupled components, which can be replaced at nearly any point. Therefore it should be really easy to create a visitor to implement a writer for the format Biowallet can read. I would really appreciate such a writer. If you need any help with Revtrans let me know. I am looking forward to a pull request from you *hint* *hint* ;) Cheers, Jakob Jakob Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:10:00 +0000 http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html#comment_4 Funny I am facing the same issue right now (Revelation -> Android) and I was testing few android apps... BioWallet, Password Juggler and Secrets. In my case, I am looking for a one-way transformation as Revelation is now abandoned and sync with my home and work computers is always a nightmare. A phone database (with export backup) is a best bet for me. Juggler has a nice UI, but so far no import/export option. Biowallet(beta) has a nice UI and an import/export although I still need to find the csv format that it will recognize. Secrets UI is a bit bare for my taste... I might have to use your script to do a revalation -> secrets -> biowallet move. Chris Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:24:26 +0000 http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html#comment_3 @James: Thanks for the hint. But I would not trust any thirdparty with handling my passwords. Even though I don't have any actual reason to believe the service you mentioned isn't save, it just doesn't feel right for me to store my passwords somewhere I don't have full control over them. I have been playing with implementing a fully javascript based password storage, which uses AES as well. Therefore revtrans may get an export option in the future which allows exporting to a HTML document including the encrypted passwords, as well as an application to open and read them. @Martink: KeePass seems to be a nice application. However changing my desktop password manager was a no go for me. I wanted to stay with Revelation, as I am very happy with it. Furthermore I have really stored a lot passwords in it, which I would not want to manually transfer to a new password manager. Anyway thank you for mentioning the applications here, as readers of this article, which are currently not using Revelation might get an inspiration what software to look at. Cheers, Jakob Jakob Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:08:32 +0000 http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html#comment_2 And what's wrong with KeePass Droid? I use it now for a year on my PC's and HTC HERO. I use dropbox to keep it in sync and now when dropbox will have an Android client soon it will be even easier Martink Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:26:10 +0000 http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html#comment_1 You could use Private Passwords (see my homepage link) - it's web-based and has a mobile version which works nicely on my Android device. It uses 256-bit AES also. James Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:01:26 +0000