Password Tech 3.5.6 + x64 + Portable

New FeaturesPermalink
PassCube: Allow keeping list of (up to 10) recently opened databases
PassCube: New button “Hide notes” (next to Notes box) to hide the text in the notes box when the box is out of focus
Window “Character Set Builder”: New option to include a tag or comment in the character set definition
Configuration | Database: New option “Keep list of recently opened files”
FixesPermalink
Password security bar in main window not displayed anymore after clearing password box automatically
Ensure proper termination of threads when exiting application

NEW FEATURES:
"Include characters" option: New placeholder "<<...>>:N[+]" allows specifying custom character set (enclosed within <<...>> and assigning a frequency value N to it (e.g., "<<abcd0123>>:1+" ensures that generated passwords contain at least one character from the set "abcd0123"
Feature "Character Set Builder": New window for composing custom character set strings, which can be copied to the "Character set" box in the main window (press "Build" button below the "Character set" box

Main features of Password Tech 3.5.2 include: Generating multiple passwords to the clipboard (“Generate” button has been redesigned for this purpose); appropriate reaction to the Windows “end session” event (e.g., system shutdown or restart); improved handling of tasks and threads; verifying clipboard contents using SHA-256 before clearing contents automatically. Also, some (non-critical) bugs have been fixed.

NEW FEATURES:

- New option "Load the following profile on startup" in Configuration | General

CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS:

- Maximum number of passwords that can be generated at once extended to
1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) (note that larger amounts >~10**8 can only be
stored in files since the number of Unicode characters displayed in the
password list window is limited to 500 million/2 billion in the 32/64-bit
version)
- Suffixes "K", "M", "G"/"B" can be specified in the "Multiple passwords" box
to generate multiples of thousands, millions, and billions, respectively
- Passwords are generated asynchronously in a separate thread, so that progress
window stays responsive
- Include characters / character sets with different frequencies: Now compatible
with password option "Each character must occur only once"
- Password manager: When changing number of KDF rounds via File | Database
Settings, the process can be canceled after 1 sec (in case the number of
rounds has accidentally been set too high)

FIXES:

- Launching PwTech on system startup caused an error (configuration file and/or
randseed.dat file not found)
- Fixed potential buffer overflows

Password Tech 3.5.0 features new high-resolution icons, various user interface styles (including light and dark themes), and allows attributing frequencies to placeholders in the character set of the Include characters option (syntax: <placeholder>:N[+] with N = Include exactly N characters and N+ = Include N or more characters); for instance, <symbols>:2+ includes at least 2 symbols in the password. The password manager PassCube features new fields “Password changed” (date & time of last password change) and “Password history” (history of up to 255 previous passwords and associated date & time values).

NEW FEATURES:

- PassCube password manager: Added option to compress database file using the
"Deflate" algorithm; available in File | Database Settings | Compression
- PassCube: When editing a database entry, password needs to be confirmed in a
separate dialog if it has been changed manually and if it is hidden in the box
- PassCube: "Quality bar" below the password box in the edit panel illustrates
the estimated quality/security of an entry's password
- PassCube: Added button next to URL box for opening the specified URL

CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS:

- Reworked password quality bar such that the color gradient ranges from 0 bits
(red/orange) to 64 bits (midpoint, yellow) to 128+ bits (green); the quality
rating is stricter now since the green color starts to become visible at
~75 bits instead of ~55 bits
- Translations: Changed custom LNG format to PO (GNU gettext) format, which is
widely supported by many applications and web services, allowing translators
to use dedicated editors such as "Poedit"
NOTE FOR TRANSLATORS: Existing translations in the LNG format (.lng file) can
be converted into the new PO format (.po file) by loading the translation in
PwTech, selecting the corresponding language in the drop-down box (Options |
Configuration | Language), and pressing the button "Convert to new PO file
format"
- Format password: Made format specifier <<...>> compatible with options
"asterisk (*)" and "random number from range", so that format sequences such
as *1-26<<<az>>> ("Randomly permute letters a..z and insert a random number
between 1 and 26 of permuted characters into the password") are functional

NEW FEATURES:

- PassCube password manager: Databases can be protected by key files in addition
to or in place of a regular password; password entry dialog allows selection
of key files and creation of new 256-bit key files
- PassCube: Recovery password (and/or key file) can be configured to enable
recovery of the database in case the regular master password has been lost;
databases can then be opened using either password; alternatively, the
recovery password may function as an "administrator key" to allow individuals
with elevated rights to access all databases in an organization (provided that
all databases have been set up with the same recovery password)
- PassCube: Remember last selected entry and tag(s) when locking database

CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS:

- PassCube: Changed HMAC algorithm (to protect data integrity and authenticity)
from SHA-256 to SHA-512 in new version of database format (1.3)
- PassCube: Search options "Fuzzy" and "Case sensitive" moved to context menu,
which can be accessed by right-clicking on the search button in the toolbar
- PassCube: "Notes" column in list view: Ignore line breaks, length limited to
200 characters
- Added digital signatures to all executable files

FIXES:

- Various minor bug fixes

NEW FEATURES:

- Password manager: Filter entries that will expire soon ("soon" can be
specified in the configuration); these entries are marked by a warning
triangle symbol in the list view
- Password manager: Open database as read-only via File | Open As Read-only
- Configuration | Database: New parameters "Warn if database contains entries
that will expire soon" and "Number of days" to specify the term "soon"
- Password option "Capitalize first letter of each word"

CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS:

- Configuration | Database: Parameters "Clear clipboard on minimize" and "Clear
clipboard on exit" replaced with single parameter "Clear clipboard when
closing/locking database" ("Database" sheet)
- List of advanced password options (checkboxes) rearranged

FIXES:

- "Include at least one..." options not effective for phonetic passwords in some
cases
- Lua stack overflow when generating large amounts of scripted passwords