Safepad has started becoming quite a popular tool with people, and I get feature requests from users all the time. The 2 most common requests are the following:
- Caching of session passwords.
- Generating user passwords to be stored in a secure document.
On this latest release I have focused on these 2 requests.
Caching of Session Passwords
In the previous versions of SafePad, everytime you open a document you have to enter in a password(s). Some users have found this a little painful, because for certain groups of files they use the same master passwords to secure the files, so they felt that when the application is open, they shouldn’t have to re-enter the password each time if the file has the same password.
This has been the most asked for feature request,so I have added it into Version 1.3. As you can see in the screen shot below, when you load a document, there is a check box to ‘Cache Password for Session’ when you check this box, the password(s) will be cached in memory (in encrypted form), so that the next time you open a file with the same password it will just open. If you try to open a file that uses a different password, you will be re-prompted to enter the password.
Once you close the application the cached password will be removed, so it will need re-entering when you load up the application. I didn’t want to get into the problems of saving the encrypted passwords to disk, I would rather just keep them in memory. I hope you find this a big usability feature. I have been using it for over a month (at the time of writing) as I keep all my staff 1 to 1 notes in encrypted files, so it is nice to be able to just open the files in a sessions without entering the password every-time.
