We’ve been busy at Clipperz: 5 updates in about 3 weeks. It’s time to sum up all new features and improvements that have been introduced to make it an even better password manager.

• Faster encryption
  Did you notice it? If you have a good number of cards I’m pretty sure you did. Encrypting and decrypting your data is now at least twice as faster as before. The entire Clipperz application is now nimbler and more pleasant to use. We are still using the very same algorithms, but Giulio was able to dramatically improve performances by tweaking the code line by line. We can proudly claim that our Javascript implementation of AES-256 is the fastest available! And we are also proud to announce that these enhancements are reflected in our Javascript Crypto Library: a new version is available for download here under the usual BSD AGPL license.

• Password generator
  We announced it few days ago and our users quickly sent in many suggestions to improve it. We do listen! Now the password generator is always available under the new tools tab and it displays both the strength and the length of the generated password. Handy when you have to shorten it to, say, exactly 16 characters.

• Offline copy
  We noticed that downloading and running the offline copy was a bit awkward for many users, especially those using a Windows PC. Both XP and Vista sometimes detected dangerous code and refused to unzip the file, or the user was asked for a mysterious password. Now the entire offline version of Clipperz is just one single HTML file, very easy to download, save and run. Read more here.

• New bookmarklet
  The code of the new bookmarklet now includes the images needed to display the pop-over window. Previously they were loaded from our server. Not a big deal, but it was the only spot in our immaculate zero-knowledge conduct: we could learn something about the web services accessed by our users from the referrer log on our web server. You can keep using the old version, but it’s recommended to upgrade for an even better privacy. The new bookmarklet is available under the “tools” tab.

• Unscramble passwords
  Right below every password field there is now a new unscramble link. Click on it to reveal the password. It’s available both in “view” and “edit” mode. However if you need to just copy the password somewhere, the easiest way it’s still to click on the stars and then press Ctrl-C.