[moneydance] encryption methods, password protection methods?

[Sean Reilly]

Hi Robert,

Great questions.  The currently released version of Moneydance only  
stores your passwords in memory for a single session (as Hans  
describes).  As soon as you exit Moneydance, or switch to a different  
data file, the passwords are forgotten.

The next update to Moneydance will provide an option to save your  
online passwords in your data file, but only if the file is encrypted.

The encryption settings window (under the File->Encryption menu)  
provides the option for DES and triple-DES (ede).  AES encryption is  
easy to add but I just haven't had enough time to test it yet.

Thanks,
Sean

On Jun 7, 2008, at 12:15 , Hans Derycke wrote:

> As far as I know, MD does not store your online banking passwords. The
> first time you access a bank since starting MD, you'll be asked for
> your password, but on subsequent attempts you won't be. And when you
> shut down MD and start it again, upon accessing your bank, you'll get
> prompted again.
>
> Regards,
> Hans Derycke
> Sent from my iPhone.
>
> On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:54 PM, "Robert Winter" <moneydance at winter-
> home.info> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm posting a question I asked in the forums two days ago; I'm sorry
>> if I'm
>> bending the rules of etiquette, but I'd like to bump this up to a
>> higher
>> level of attention since it impacts my decision of whether to
>> convert to
>> Moneydance or not and I'd like to move forward this weekend if
>> possible (I
>> recognize that I may not get an answer before Monday sometime.)
>>
>> Here is my question in the forum:
>>
>> Hi, I just started using MD 2008, but I have not setup online
>> banking yet.
>> My hesitation is that I don't see any explanation of whether or not  
>> MD
>> stores my various bank passwords, and if so, how it is protected.  
>> This
>> information is not anywhere easily found with google searches such  
>> as:
>> `site:moneydance.com protection encryption`
>>
>> Do I enter a particular bank's password each time I need it? Are
>> passwords
>> securely wiped from MoneyDance after use? I see that I can encrypt
>> my entire
>> datafile. What is the encryption method? I presume such encryption
>> protects
>> any recorded bank passwords, but what if I don't encrypt the
>> moneydance data
>> file?
>>
>> I think I'm being understandably cautious with this new program and
>> I'm
>> surprised it has not been discussed much in the forums.
>>
>> -R
>>
>>
>> Here is a link to the forum post:
>> http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1212618831
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