I’m really surprised to hear (via LWN.net) that Google Chrome doesn’t use a master password to encrpyt stored password. Clearly everyone that uses Chrome has their disk encrypted. Erm…..
In that same article, I also came across the “Free as in Beer but not as in Freedom”
LastPass password manager. It runs as a plug in to IE, Firefox and Chrome. I can’t see any great benift when using Firefox over setting a master password and using Weave but for IE or Chrome, this looks very good. It also solves a problem that most people haven’t even considered yet, that of encrypting storage of forms/passwords etc. on mobile devices. The mobile version costs, but not a lot.
Once I get an Android phone, I see this going on it asap.
