E2PM: Enclosed Portable Password Manager

Sammanfattning: Passwords have been a necessary evil for a while. Today’s computer users have multiple accounts on the internet, with each burdening the user’s memory with complex long passwords.The requirement of generating, memorising and maintaining such passwords is becoming a bottleneck that modern-day password managers try to alleviate to a certain extent. This is all good until the stored password vaults are breached on the user’s machine or third-party servers where passwords are stored get infiltrated. Hence there is a need for something more obscure and self-contained. In this research, E2PM, which stands for Enclosed Portable Password Manager, is a hardware-based password manager that aims to be self-contained, secure, and portable. These three attributes are achieved by using a live operating system that fits on a portable flash drive whose contents are encrypted using the AES-256 algorithm. E2PM can be used through a live boot or the Virtual Box application. Passwords are stored in a separate partition on E2PM’s drive, never touch the host computer’s hard disk and are strongly encrypted. E2PM intends to provide a low-cost solution using existing hardware as compared to contemporary hardware based password managers and provides backwards compatibility, which means the user needs not make any drastic changes to their application data