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Password manager
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The connection manager has a build-in password manager which uses encryption
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to savely store passwords. If you want to use it is up to you. Check the Save
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password checkbox and the password manager will be used to safely store the
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password. The first time this happens you will be asked for a password you wish
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to use for the password manager. Make sure to remember this password cause there
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is no way to recover it if you loose it.
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When you try to open a connection for which the password was saved the program
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will prompt you for the password managers password. You can choose how long the
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program will keep the password manager unlocked. If you cancel this password
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prompt the program will prompt you for the password of the database connection.
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Resetting the password manager
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Unfortunatly at this time there is no way to change the master password.
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Neither is it possible to completely reset the password manager other then
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removing the `pglabuser.db` file.
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Security
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To make it hard to brute force decode the saved passwords the passwords are not
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simply encrypted with the master password. Instead a keystrengthening algorithm
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is applied to your master password combined with a salt. The exact parameters
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choosen for keystrengthening depends on the speed of your computer. This
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strengthened key will be used only as a basis for encryption. Each password
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saved is associated with a random guid, this 128-bit value is combined with
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your strengthened key to create the key to save the password.
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