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Keepass2Android is an unfastened root password manager exertion for Android.

It reads and writes .kdbx-files, the database format utilized by the fashionable KeePass 2.x Password Safe for Windows and different desktop operating systems.

The idiosyncratic interface is based connected Keepassdroid (by Brian Pellin), ported from Java to Mono for Android. The backend uses the archetypal KeePass libraries to grip record entree to guarantee record format compatibility.

Main features of the App are

* read/write enactment for .kdbx (KeePass 2.x) files
* integrates with astir each Android browser (see below)
* QuickUnlock: Unlock your database erstwhile with your afloat password, re-open it by typing conscionable a fewer characters (see below)
* Integrated Soft-Keyboard: Switch to this keyboard for entering idiosyncratic credentials. This shields you from clipboard based password sniffers (see below)
* enactment for editing entries including further drawstring fields, record attachments, tags etc.
* Note: delight instal Keepass2Android (non offline version) if you privation to unfastened files straight from a webserver (FTP/WebDAV).
* hunt dialog with each hunt options from KeePass 2.x.

Required privileges:
* Access SD Card
* Vibrate

Bug reports and suggestions: https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android/

== Browser integration ==
If you request to lookup a password for a webpage, spell to Menu/Share... and prime Keepass2Android. This will
* bring up a surface to load/unlock a database if nary database is loaded and unlocked
* spell to the Search Results surface displaying each entries for the presently visited URL
- oregon -
* straight connection the Copy Username/Password notifications if precisely 1 introduction matches the presently visited URL

== QuickUnlock ==
You should support your password database with a beardown (i.e. random and LONG) password including precocious and little lawsuit arsenic good arsenic numbers and peculiar characters. Typing specified a password connected a mobile telephone each clip you unlock your database is time-consuming and error-prone. The KP2A solution is QuickUnlock:
* Use a beardown password for your database
* Load your database and benignant the beardown password once. Enable QuickUnlock.
* The exertion is locked aft the clip specified successful the settings
* If you privation to re-open your database, you tin benignant conscionable a fewer characters (by default, the past 3 characters of your password) to unlock rapidly and easily!
* If the incorrect QuickUnlock cardinal is entered, the database is locked and the afloat password is required to re-open.

Is this safe? First: it allows you to usage a truly beardown password, this increases information successful lawsuit idiosyncratic gets your database file. Second: If you escaped your telephone and idiosyncratic tries to unfastened the password database, the attacker has precisely 1 accidental to marque usage of QuickUnlock. When utilizing 3 characters and assuming 70 characters successful the acceptable of imaginable characters, the attacker has a 0.0003% accidental of opening the file. If this sounds inactive excessively overmuch for you, take 4 oregon much characters successful the settings.

QuickUnlock requires an icon successful the notification area. This is due to the fact that Android would termination Keepass2Android excessively often without this icon. It does not necessitate artillery power.

== Keepass2Android Keyboard ==
A German probe squad has demonstrated that clipboard-based entree of credentials arsenic utilized by astir Android password managers is not safe: Every app connected your telephone tin registry for changes of the clipboard and frankincense beryllium notified erstwhile you transcript your passwords from the password manager to your clipboard. In bid to support against this benignant of attack, you should usage the Keepass2Android keyboard: When you prime an entry, a notification volition look successful the notification bar. This notification lets you power to the KP2A keyboard. ON this keyboard, click the KP2A awesome to "type" your credentials. Click the keyboard cardinal to power backmost to your favourite keyboard.

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