Do you use an application to help you keep track of all web passwords and for automated sign-in? If yes, chances are you currently missing it on your iPhone. Not any more as there is some good news for all you folks, the makers of 1Password have come up with with a clever way to sync your passwords with the iPhone as they have just announced "1Password for iPhone" which uses an ingenious way to sync data to the iPhone. All the details of the latest iPhone application and a step by step guide available after the jump.
Agile Web Solutions, the makers of 1Password have announced that 1Password 2.5 sports a new icon on its toolbar "Sync to iPhone" clicking on which will export all your 1Password data to an encrypted Safari Bookmarklet, which can then be used on the iPhone (or even iPod Touch) to access all your information.
In case you are worried about data security, David Teare, co-author of 1Password points out that everything is encrypted with some seriously strong cryptography, namely 448-bit Blowfish with Cipher Block Chaning (CBC) and randomized salt.
Unfortunately, 1Password is currently only available for Mac OS X.
Here is a step by step guide on how to get it to work with your iPhone courtesy David Teare over @ Switcher's blog:
Here the assumption is you have upgraded your 1Password installation to 1Password 2.5 so you will see the "Sync to iPhone" icon in the toolbar. Clicking Sync to iPhone will bring up a new window:
As you can see in the screenshot above that it prompts you to enter the access code, which is essentially used to encrypt all your information using 448 bit Blowfish encryption.
The encrypted 1Password data is then stored into a Safari Bookmarklet, which is a standard bookmark, but instead of containing just an address, it actually contains the entire web page. By default the bookmarklet is named 1Password and put as a root element.
The next time you export we will find the bookmarklet and update it, you can then launch iTunes to sync it your iPhone.
Once iTunes syncs to your iPhone you will see the 1Password in your iPhone's bookmarks.
Clicking the bookmark will open a page asking for your Access Code.
Enter the same Access Code you used during the export. After you have entered the access code you will see the Standard 1Password section as seen below.
So tapping each section will show you all the entries under that section and tapping an entry will show you all the details of that entry.
Wasn't that easy? It definitely seems like an easy way to sync your password information to the iPhone, however, 1Password for iPhone does not solve the problem completely as it currently only makes information available on the iPhone but is limited in utility as it doesn’t populate the webform with the username and password.
David clarifies that they are already working of this and are hoping to get “Go&Fill” functionality working soon so that you can automatically login to web sites using your iPhone and signs off with this quote "Rome was not built in a day; it will take some time but we have some great solutions in mind."
As Marc Orchant @ blognation points out that this is indeed a clever way to sync data to the iPhone without the need of any iPhone hacks and we could probably see developers using bookmarklets as a way to extend what the iPhone can do especially since iPhone's Notes application is essentially worthless until Leopard ships (as per the latest rumors).
To check out 1Password for iPhone visit the 1Password 2.5 Beta forum. Don't forget to let us know how well it worked for you.
[Source: blognation via Switcher's blog]
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Thanks for the post! I'm glad you like 1Password for iPhone as much as we do. We have gotten a great response from this so far as most people don't want to hack their iPhone. If you saw the "Fido" network in the screen grabs, you can probably guess I don't mind
After the 1.1 update, however, I am very happy we did not complete the release of our "native" 1Password application and instead elected for a completely non-hack based approach.
As you saw in my comment to the Switchers Blog article, we are definitely trying to extend this idea to perform the form filling automatically. We should have this done "soon"; now that the infrastructure is in place for security and robustness, Go&Fill should be relatively painless. Hopefully these don't become my "Famous Last Words"!
Cheers!
–Dave Teare
Co-author of 1Password
Check out LogOnce for iPhone
it is synchronized with LogOnceToolbar
which is a password manager for Windows
Internet Explorer.
I use is and I love it.
here is a link : http://www.logonce.com/toolbar/iphone.htm
Have a look at iAccounts, it includes a FREE backup utility for both MAC and WINDOWS. It's a great app, well designed and integrated with iPhone ergonomics. No limits on the number of fields and custom field types, And the FREE BACKUP APP just rocks! iAccounts is a must have.
I agree with the previous user. iAccounts just rocks! It's the best deal on the AppStore for password managers. I found the website of iAccounts. Check it out at http://www.venticentostudio.com