The Internet Marketing Dream

For those that don’t know RoboForm is a password manager that helps you manage all your on-line passwords (no surprise there). I used to use it in the past but abandoned it in favour of Keypass which is Open Source and therefore free

Now I love Keypass and in the past it has served me well but with the introduction of RoboForm V6 I thought I’d give it another try.

I’m glad I did as all the niggles from the earlier versions have been addressed and like Keypass you can now run it from a USB stick and move it from computer to computer.

Now I’m paranoid when it comes to security and although Robo Form encrypts your user Id’s and passwords using a variety of algorithms (DES, AES, Blowfish, 3DES and RC6) it’s source code is not available for peer review so it’s effectiveness is not really known.

I add another layer of security by using PGP Full Disk Encryption to encrypt the entire USB stick. This means I have to mount the USB stick first (pass phrase one) and then unlock RoboForm (pass phrase two.

If someone steals my USB stick first they have to brute force my PGP volume (my pass phrases are all over 20 characters in length and include special characters) then crack the RoboForm encryption.  Good luck with that unless you’re a security agency

Anyhoo it at least gives me a couple of days to change all my sensitive passwords before the stick is compromised (in reality it would probably never be cracked but why take the chance)

If you can’t afford PGP you could use TrueCrypt which is open source and does a similar job or if you can’t be bothered with full disk encryption and aren’t paranoid you could just rely on RoboForm.

I’ve also used Tcpview and Process Explorer and can see no evidence of RoboForm making any outbound connections.

So if you want a top notch (the best and easiest to use) password manager that has the following features:

• No more having to remember passwords
• Log into Websites (banking, social media, wordpress and many more)
• Strong encryption of user ids and passwords
• Fill in forms automatically
• Can be run off a USB stick (RoboForm2Go)
• Separate Identities
• Free 30 Day Trial

As Internet Marketers we need to store many different user ids and passwords and managing them can be a pain in the butt. Anything that makes that easier and saves time (and therefore money) has to be a worthwhile investment.

If you’d like to discover more about how RoboForm can make your on-line activity more productive click the link.

Bob Bartram AKA Young Bob

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