PINs, secure passwords manager

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Current version: 4.50.0.86, 19 Mar 2003 
Platform: any 32-bit Windows (including XP)
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  v.4.50 as Setup (recommended): site 1, site 2 (689 KB)
  v.4.50 as ZIP file: site 1, site 2 (689 KB) Be sure to unpack internal "Lang" subfolder!
  Up-to-date languages pack: PINsLang.zip  (174 KB, 25 Mar 2003)

Selected features

• Secure 448 bit Blowfish encoding.
• Unlimited number of entries and data files.
• A clear tree-like data organization which allows logical grouping of systems and accounts.
• Automated login into Internet services (SuperPaste).
• A powerful random passwords generator.
• Safe files wiping using Gutmann, DoD and custom methods.
• Embedded hyperlinks launching.
• Unlimited in size, multi-line descriptions.
• A flexible data import/export in text format.
• Multiple user accounts on a single PC.
• Accounts sorting using any column as a sort criteria.
• Comfortable accounts adding, editing, and deleting.
• Compatibility with popular clipboard extenders.
• Passwords masking.
• Copy logins and passwords to the Windows clipboard.
• Find/find next functions.
• Expired passwords tracking.
• Running from a floppy without saving settings to registry.
• Multilingual versions.
• Full source code available.
• And more...

Available language versions

• Brazilian Portuguese translation by Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Jr., carloseduardof@yahoo.com.br
• Bulgarian translation by Bobi Markov, b_marko@yahoo.com
• Catalan translation by Pau Bosch i Crespo, PauBCrespo@hotmail.com, http://www.all4you.dk
• Chinese (simple, GB) translation by Tang Jian, http://itang.lo.to
• Chinese (traditional, BIG5) translation by Tsung-Che Wu, http://cproxomitron.cjb.net
• Czech translation by Zdeněk Jantač, http://web.quick.cz/jantac.zdenek/
• Danish translation by Lars Grove Jřrgensen, l_ar5@hotmail.com
• Deutsche Übersetzung von Peter Bongé, http://www.peterbonge.de/
• Dutch (Netherlands) translation by door Tony
• English translation by Mirek Wójtowicz, http://www.mirekw.com/
• French translation by Renaud Pascal, http://l0k1.free.fr and Sachab sachab@fnac.net
• Hrvatski (Croatian) translation by R.D. Goran
• Interlingua translation by Thomas Breinstrup, info@interlingua.dk and Martijn Dekker martijn@inlv.demon.nl
• Italian translation by Moreno Trinca, moretrin@hotmail.com and Toti Maiorca (Palermo)
• Macedonian translation by Aleksandar Savic, aleks@macedonia.eu.org, http://www.pcinfo.com.mk
• Magyar (Hungarian) translation by Gabor
• Norsk (Norwegian) translation by Morten Lunde morten@lunde.nu and John Rřnning jr. jr@rcn.no
• Polski (Polish), tlumaczenie: Mirek Wójtowicz, http://www.mirekw.com/
• Portuguese (Portugal) translation by José Filipe Silva, lafey@netcabo.pt
• Russian translation by Vlad Chursin, http://vc.softdepia.com/, Maxim Ganetsky maxkill@mail.ru and Svyatoslav Bunkov
• Slovak translation by Ľubomír Červeň, lubcer@kiwwi.sk
• Slovenian translation by I. Pravica, pravica@riex.net, http://www.riex.net
• Spanish translation by Jon Aske Aritza
• Suomi (Finnish) translation by Risto Saarinen, saarri@mail.com
• Swedish translation by Raimund von der Emden, rvde@gmx.net

I'd appreciate your help in translating the program to other languages!

Some user comments

"I just installed your program on an USB drive. The unit is about the size of my thumb and simply needs an USB port to connect. This device makes a good tool to carry all my password information with me. Very cool idea."
    - John Willard

"I have just downloaded your program and am beginning to try it out. What a superb tool. It is so intuitive and clean. Thanks for making such a wonderful piece of software freely available."
    - Martin Hagget

"I just spent a few hours trying out several password managers, among them, ***, ***, ***, ***, and PINs 40. I have come to the conclusion that PINs is the best utility of its type that can be found. PINs' intuitive directory-tree structure, ability to import/export to a text file, and the ease of connecting to accounts with WWW links puts PINs above all the rest. Thank you for a great utility!"
   - Robert Steele

"Thanks for this really neat, fast, little program. I take a copy with me (on a floppy) whenever I travel and then use it on any computer available. At last count, I have 94 passwords, and since most of them are randomly-generated alpha numeric, upper and lower case, there is no way that I could remember any of them. It is very nice that such capable freeware is available."
    - Thom E. Mitchell

"VERY nice program! I was searching the net for a password management program and I found yours. I must tell it is the best freeware password management program I found."
    - Rayen Riedel

Thank you for your password program. It is small, fast, and very easy to use. One of the things that I particularly enjoy, is the fact that I can copy my PINs directory to a floppy, and take it with me when I am out of town.
    - Thom Mitchell

"I really like your wonderful small software, PINs. I have used it not just for PIN/password, I have used it for bookmark collector, email address book, phone book as well. All of these information can be put in one floppy diskette. It's really cool"
    - Yiling Cheng

"Love your program. I have tried several others and found them cumbersome."
    - Fisk Family

What's new in PINs

4.50.0.86, 19 Mar 2003

• Release version.
• Setup is available now in English, German, French, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

4.50.0.85 Beta RC1, 11 Mar 2003

• The program tells clipboard extenders to ignore passwords being copied to the clipboard (it works with ClipMate and Yankee Clipper, possibly with other extenders too.)
• The password input dialog allows minimizing the application when the database has been locked.
• New Info box popup menu offering two options: Copy selection to the clipboard and Toggle activity of embedded hyperlinks.
• The comma (,) is accepted as a valid URL character.
• Passwords generator - repaired crash on empty set of user characters.
• Corrected problem with SuperPasting passwords containing '{' characters.
• Corrected problem with items having an empty category.
• The program is available now in 25 language versions.

4.50.0.82 Beta, 09 Sep 2002

• Possibility to paste user name and/or password into external applications using system-wide hotkeys (defaults: Ctrl+F11, and Ctrl+F12, inactive.)
• "SuperPaste" option allowing pasting into external applications user-defined set of data, together with keys like <Tab> and <Enter>. Default system-wide hotkey: Ctrl+Y, active.
• Expired passwords verification and handling.
• Export to text file - command configuration moved from general settings to a dialog opened every time an export is being performed.
• Export to text file - possibility to specify which categories should be exported.
• Export to text file - possibility to export quoted texts.
• Import from text file - properly imports quoted texts.
• System-wide hotkeys editor.
• A new configuration option - expand all categories after opening a data file.
• Repaired saving of settings to an .ini file.

v.4.20.0.76, 29 Jun 2002

• Release version.
• Possibility to run from a write-protected floppy or a CD-ROM.
• Multilingual setup.

v.4.20.0.75 Beta RC1, 24 Jun 2002

• Exporting data to a text file requires entering a master password.
• Repaired data sorting.
• Possibility of reordering columns by dragging their headers to new positions.
• A new security option: lock database after defined time of inactivity.
• A new configuration option - auto-expand focused categories.
• Fixed problem with recursive locking of the database.
• Repaired problem with importing the "More info" field.

v.4.10.0.70, 18 Jun 2002

• Full program documentation (Help).
• "Guidelines for the creation of cryptographically strong passwords", by Steven Michael.
• Possibility to define user names for all columns (except for the category).
• User names for columns can be switch off without erasing them.
• Accept files dropped on the program window.
• Possibility to define the action performed after double-clicking an item: edit, copy password, copy user name or launch a URL.
• Passwords generator - a list of predefined popular templates.
• Passwords generator - when generating a number of passwords of the specified length, a new template is generated for every password.
• Possibility of predefining user password templates in Passwords.tpl file.
• An option for automatic checking if a new version of the program is available.
• "Stay on top" option, available in menu "View" (shortcut <Ctrl+F5>).
• Configurable count of Most Recently Used database files.
• Repaired bug causing dialog windows not to restore their positions on the screen.

v.4.00.0.62, 07 Mar 2002

• Release version.

v.4.00.0.61 Beta 3, 03 Mar 2002

• New option - auto saving on exit.
• Improved detection of minimizing/restoring the application.
• Fixed saving/restoring of dates columns width.
• Found records are always put into the visible area of the grid.
• Extracted last(?) missing international messages.
• Fixed international tooltips for file selection buttons.
• Localized message boxes.
• Fixed other minor localization issues.
• New language versions: Slovenian and Macedonian.

v.4.00.0.56 Beta 2, 17 Feb 2002

• Possibility to configure the visibility of particular columns.
• Windows XP Themes Manager compatibility.
• Configurable sounds.
• Items editor - calendar gadget is properly initialized with date.
• Possibility to reenter invalid password up to 3 times.
• Copy user name/password to Clipboard available in the right-click menu.
• "Exit" button on the main toolbar
• Removed dates panel introduced in Beta 1.
• Repaired sorting on dates columns.

v.4.00.0.53 Beta 1, 25 Jan 2002

• PINs is now OSI Certified Open Source Software.
• A new module for safe files and folders wiping. Support for Gutmann, DoD and custom wiping methods.
• A new column with custom user-defined data.
• A new security setting: Empty the clipboard on exit.
• A new security setting: Empty the clipboard on minimize.
• A new setting: Copy password to clipboard on URL launching.
• A new security setting: Create an additional archival copy of saved data files in a specified location.
• A new security setting: Lock the database on minimize.
• Password generator - possibility to use user-defined symbols.
• Password generator - possibility to generate any number of passwords at once.
• An option for clearing the clipboard (keyboard shortcut <Ctrl-Q>).
• Much improved loading time. Large data files load even 8 times faster.
• All program settings can be saved to and restored from an INI file.
• Configurable fonts, styles, and colors.
• A character map tool allowing entering characters not available on the keyboard.
• <Esc> key allows to close all dialog windows.
• Scroll tracking.
• Dialog windows restore their locations and sizes from previous sessions.
• When exporting data to text file, multiline descriptions are output in one line.
• <Tab> can be used as fields' separator in text files.
• Both date fields moved to the dates panel.
• Default open/save folder is the PINs installation folder.
• View menu - a new option for showing/hiding the dates panel.
• Removed bug causing wrong import of text files containing empty fields.
• Minor changes and improvements.

v.3.00.0.35, 22 Dec 2001-26 Feb 2002

• New translations: Czech, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, and Slovenian.

v.3.00.0.32, 16 Dec 2001

• URLs launching directly from the memo box.
• Option for hiding passwords in the editing dialog.
• Minimizing to system tray.
• Possibility to create multilingual versions.
• English, German, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Swedish translations.
• New function "Copy user name to clipboard" (<Ctrl+U>).
• New hyperlinks types: file, telnet, news, gopher, weis, ftps.
• Resizable memo box.
• Improved logic of opening, appending and importing.
• Swapped the order of the "User" and "System" fields.
• Improved detection of URLs.
• URL found in the URL/Comment field is the default one for launching with the <Ctrl+H> command.

v.2.50.0.19, 11 Oct 2001

• Embedded hyperlinks launching.
• Unlimited size of additional description.
• Remapped duplicated hotkeys.
• Minor improvements.

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Last update: 25 Mar 2003