eWallet Vers. 5.0.0

silber1 · 05-16-07, 07:42 AM

I use eWallet on my hx 4700 for a year and have a lot of PINs and keys stored in it. It is a great and flexible software which is in use dayly.

Ilium Software says, that the safe is save and can not be hacked.
Is there any information known, if this is realy true?
Can I relay on it?

imported_Ilium_Software · 05-16-07, 03:01 PM

I'm sure you'll want to hear from users as well, but I will offer the following as a way to ease your mind.

1. Saying it "can't" be hacked isn't 'technically' true. Given a few hundred thousand networked computers and something like 20,000 years, in theory you could hack a wallet with brute force. This all assumes, of course, that you chose a good password. So a more accurate statement would be that it is highly improbable that anyone could hack eWallet in a reasonable amount of time under the current technological conditions.

2. We've been selling eWallet for nearly 10 years. I assure you that if this software was not secure that we wouldn't have managed to remain the top selling secure info manager for this long.

3. eWallet was included with PDAs in the past. Companies like Dell and HP would not put their name on the line for a product unless they were 100% confident in its security.

So, hopefully this will help!

Marc Tassin
Ilium Software
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silber1 · 05-19-07, 06:07 PM

Marc,
many thanks for comming back to my question from Illium Software.
eWallet is a great piece of software ! It is very flexible in renaming many database fields. So it is no problem to use it in German.
In the meantime I have put a lot of keys and passwords on it.

I use a cryptic password with 8 letters. Do you mean it is sufficient?
I see problem areas: The pda is lost or stolen or someone tries to hack the program which is running on one of my desktops which is linked by a router and firewall to the internet. Should I delete the program from the desktop or put it on a usb stick which is used only when eWallet is used on the PC?

Again, eWallet is a super software and helper in the dayly information crowd.
Gerhard

imported_Ilium_Software · 05-25-07, 09:51 AM

Well, I wouldn't try to predict whether you have a good password or what the best practice would be for you regarding the desktop but I'd say that as long as you have the data in eWallet and picked what seems like a good password you are probably very very safe.

Marc Tassin
Ilium Software
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marc@iliumsoft.com
+1 (734) 973-9388
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Pocket PC Software, Palm Software, Smartphone Software

And be sure check out our blog! Ilium Software Blog

silber1 · 05-26-07, 06:19 PM

some month ago I found a big safety hole which I dugged myself: I did an export of all eWallet data and didn't delete the exportfile! A thief could have all my data as plain text.
So all ewallet users be warned: delete securely the export file after the job is done!

Is there a chance, that in a comming version eWallet could be installed in CF or SD memory and not in the main memory? The hx4700 needs every kb in its main memory.

Gerhard