How embarrassing to be caught talking dirty about one of my favorite apps.

What I meant was that if you use 1Password 3.0, and you look inside your keychain, there’s an entire self-contained web application in there that allows you to access your stored logins (as long as you remember your master password). The UI looks a lot like that of the native Mac application.

What this means is that you can keep your keychain in your Dropbox or on any public web server and access your passwords from any computer—even one running Linux or some (cough) other OS—without having to install 1Password. All the important data in the keychain is encrypted and all the decryption takes place inside your browser via Javascript, so it’s quite secure. Your passwords never get sent over the network unencrypted.

What a delight it was to discover—entirely by accident—this exceptionally useful and well-thought-out feature. More like this, please.