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STRIP on the iPhone

Posted: Nov 12, 2008 by Billy Gray Tagged mobile

We’ve long had a product called STRIP for Palm OS. This Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords encrypted account records in its database using a password supplied by the user. It’s been very popular on the Palm platform, in particular with IT folks, for quite some time (here’s an article on ZDNet from back when the Internet’s crust was cooling, and here’s a write-up on CNN.com).

Given the almost universal abandonment of the Palm platform and OS over the past few years, we’ve ceased to officially support Palm Strip. Many of our users have gotten in touch to inquire if we might take the program to another platform going forward, and to date our response has been to decline.

However, Stephen recently completed assembling a version of SQLite that provides high-grade OpenSSL encryption for embedded databases, sqlite-cipher. With this proven, secure technology as our foundation, we’ve decided to build a new version of STRIP on the iPhone platform.

It’s currently in development and we hope to have it ready to rumble by December.

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  • Thursday, November 13, 2008

    João F. says:

    Will this version also available or usable in the IPOD classic?

    - If not, is there anyway to export data from strip to an edit file (in Excel or other type of document ie.*.pdf file?

    Thanks for your support
    JF

  • Thursday, November 13, 2008

    Stephen C. says:

    Thats great news.

    Will the iPhone version have all the same features as the Palm version?

  • Saturday, November 15, 2008

    Billy says:

    @João: we are building an app for iPhone and iPod touch, it won't work for old pods. Get in touch with us at support@Zetetic.net about exporting your old database. We will put together an export/migrater at some point, but we can give you some tips for the time being.

    @Stephen C.: the initial version will be about the same but will lack beaming (no such thing for iPhones, which is a shame, the crippled blutoof functionality). We will be providing desktop/backup options but we need to work out the core app first and actually get it into the appstore. Will post updates here.

  • Tuesday, November 18, 2008

    Ralph says:

    That's great to here. Important for me would be to have a possibility to migrate the data from Palm to iphone. Thanks for working on this.

  • Tuesday, November 25, 2008

    Eric says:

    I'm an avid user of strip, but feel tied to my palm os version now. this news of a iPhone version is excellent.

    I too would like some sort of an exporter (for example to attach to a will)

    thank you for such a great utility.

  • Thursday, November 27, 2008

    dan says:

    this is great news. have held on to my old palm m505 for 5 years now, and the sole reason was strip. I was desperately trying to figure out how to use strip-dump in order to get my data off the palm, and i hope there will be a way to transfer. looking forward to hearing about this!!

  • Friday, December 05, 2008

    Kokacha says:

    I've used strip for many years on my different models of PalmOne PDAs. Now I have a Window Mobile Pocket PC and I would like to know if you are also considering the possibility of launching a Strip version for Pocket PC. Now I'm conducting an exhaustive seach looking for password managers, simple to use an able to be syncronized with my PC.

  • Monday, December 08, 2008

    Billy says:

    <p>All - We will work out an exporter. Migrations and such are going to be the tricky part, we're going to get the basic app ready to ship first and then hammer that part out.</p>
    <p>@Kokacha - unfortunately we have no plans for a Windows Mobile version at this point. If we end up building a version in Java for the Android platform, we may also be able to reuse those libraries on Windows Mobile (maybe), but that's still wishful thinking right now.</p>

  • Wednesday, December 10, 2008

    Peter Musolino says:

    Awesome! I use the blackberry password keeper currently for work and personal use but would love to be able to be able to keep my own stuff off of a work device!

  • Tuesday, December 16, 2008

    Lew says:

    I have an iPOD Touch. Hope it will work for that. I also have a Palm Centro and have used Strip since before it was 2.0. Would love to have the ability to move the data to another keypass on the desktop. A .CSV or .XML file would be great.

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