KeePassX is a
free and open-source
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password manager. It started as a
Linux port of
KeePass,
which was at that time an
open-source
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but
Windows-only
password manager. Both are now cross platform, with KeePassX using
Qt libraries and recent versions of KeePass using
.NET / Mono. It is built using version 5 of the
Qt toolkit, making it a multi-platform application, which can be run on
Linux, Windows, and
macOS.
KeePassX uses the KeePass 2 (
.kdbx) password database format as the native format. It can also import (and convert) the older KeePass 1 (
.kdb) databases.
As of December 2021, KeePassX is no longer actively maintained.
There is a community fork of KeePassX, called
KeePassXC
KeePassXC is a free and open-source password manager. It started as a community fork of KeePassX (itself a cross-platform port of KeePass).
It is built using Qt5 libraries, making it a multi-platform application which can be run on Linux, Wi ...
.
See also
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List of password managers
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Password manager
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Cryptography
References
External links
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Free password managers
Software that uses Qt
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