Hope they help.

Passpack Desktop is a free installable application, based on Adobe AIR technology, that works on Mac, Windows and Linux.

It borns to back up the online data, so that if, for example, Passpack is unreachable for some reason, you have your data always available in your PC.
To do this, Passpack Desktop can synchronize the online and offline data.

But, you can use the program as stand-alone, without limitation.

Currently, the Deskop app is not updated to Passpack 7 and doesn’t support shared entries. But I am working on it to align it to the online version ASAP.

Thank you for your reply. You are totally right on the fact to have a second option to sign in to Passpack.

I am very pleased with your service.

I look forward to your desktop version! Will it be sort of like 1Password ? 1P is neat, but you can’t access from anywhere in the world, from any computer — thus my dedication to Passpack.

Thank you again and good luck with your work!

Amo

If we will find a new way to access and verify the GMail account without GFC, we will surely add again the full access via GMail. But it depends from Google. If they want that people migrate towards Google Friend Connect, we can do nothing.

In my case, I have disassociated my Gmail from my Passpack account, and now I am using GFC. I didn’t have issues and all works perfectly. I didn’t had need other.

As you can imaginate, I associated to my Passpack account all the available 3rd party auth. It is important have at least a second active sign in, because if the principal is unreachable we have another chance.

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I guess that is a good option.

Do you want me to delete the current Gmail login association?

Will Passpask continue to use Gmail at all ? I suppose if “yes”, then you are re-doing the security all over again, and at a later time we can re-associate our Gmail accounts ?

Thank you.

If you don’t like GFC, you can always access using your standard Passpack sign in.

If you haven’t one, you can go to the tab “Account”, click on “Set a User ID” e choose it.
After, click on “Set a Password” and proceed. Now you have also a standard Passpack sign in.

In the following, you can use both of them to connect to your account.

What I don’t like about Google Friend Connect, it means you have to have a blog/site to have an “account” ! And I don’t use the other social services and I don’t want to create a whole new Yahoo address just for Passpack….so what do I do ?

Thank you.

Currently, the Google/Gmail sign in doesn’t authenticate the user, it limits its action to recognize her. This undoubtly reduces the level of security, but a good Packing Key guarantees a strong level of security in any case.

I suggest to all the Google users that uses Google/Gmail to sign in Passpack to:

1. Connect to Passpack as usual.
2. Associate a new Google Friend Connect to the account.
3. When the association is complete, and you are in your account again, delete the association with the old Google/Gmail sign in.

In the next days, we will add a standard Two-factor Authentication. Initially, it will work only (and specifically) with the Google/Gmail sign in, in order to elevate again the level of security.

Was there any chance of a security breach with this failure?

Colum