iMobileSitter

A innovative anti brute force solution to store your credentials on iPhones?

The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology recently released a password manager (iMobileSitter) for the iPhone with an innovative approach which makes brute force attacks useless. The idea of the iMobileSitter is not to notify the user if the entered master password for authentication is incorrect. The app lets the user in anyways, but the plain text credentials (pins, passwords) are not correctly encrypted as well.

Accordingly the user would not know if he mistyped his password. Therefor an optical feedback exists. It shows a unique set of icons for any password.

A main reason for buying is that I do not want to save my secrets within a password manager from any company. Nothing about their know how or their technology public. Things are different with Fraunhofer SIT. A well know German research institute.

The app is available on the AppStore.

Cheers, mavi