Dropbox officially launches its own password manager and a secure vault for your files

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Dropbox is launching a dare of new manifestation today, many of which are security-focused, including the countersign manager that was inceptive spotted earlier this month; a "vault" aural your files intentional for autumn dossier like descendants certificates; as well-conditioned as a new way to boon your computer to your Dropbox account.

The countersign manager, pegged Dropbox Passwords, lets you teemingness your passwords in one quarters like you would with a committed countersign manager like 1Password or LastPass except using your Dropbox almanac credentials. The release of Dropbox Passwords follows Dropbox's buildup of countersign manager Valt last year.

Part of the sageness the visitor implanted a seated countersign necessitation full-length is due to the genuineness that it observed that countersign necessitation is "one of the outweighing use cases for Dropbox today," Dropbox product curvation Timothy Young tells The Verge in an interview. Persons not personalized use Dropbox for autumn as well-conditioned as managing their passwords -- hopefully not in plaintext? -- except conjointly syncing their flawless countersign manager with Dropbox, Young said.

Dropbox is conjointly launching Dropbox Vault, designed to be a actual unscratched quarters in your Dropbox almanac to pension sensorial documents. You can actual unscratched your basement with a six-digit PIN, as well-conditioned as Dropbox says files will be encrypted back they're uploaded, downloaded, as well-conditioned as while they're stored on Dropbox's servers. As well-conditioned as if you need to selectively slice despite to your Dropbox Basement in an emergency, you'll be sturdy to do that after opening up your whole account, according to the company.

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Dropbox is conjointly introducing a new service that lets you automatically fetch up folders from your Mac or PC to Dropbox. You'll be sturdy to unparagoned which folders Dropbox backs up if you so choose, Young tells The Verge.

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Dropbox Passwords as well-conditioned as Basement are husbandless in beta today for all mobile users on Dropbox Plus, which starts at $11.99 per month. All other flawless Dropbox Plus users will get despite to the betas of both wares in the coming weeks, according to the company. Dropbox says the computer boon full-length will be husbandless in beta for Dropbox Basic, Professional, as well-conditioned as Plus users today.

In addition, Dropbox is managerial HelloSign eSignature a seated full-length aural Dropbox, significance you'll be sturdy to send, receive, as well-conditioned as stableness dossier all after leaving Dropbox. The integration follows Dropbox's buildup of HelloSign last year. Dropbox says it will be husbandless to "a subset of users" in private beta in the coming weeks as well-conditioned as will be husbandless to all users abutting month.

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Dropbox is conjointly launching what it calls the Dropbox App Equidistant to notifying you biggest routing third-party apps that assignment with Dropbox. If you previously capital to routing those apps, you had to dig into your almanac settings, so the goal with the App Equidistant is to harmonics persons a centric quarters routing apps as well-conditioned as integrations they nimbleness be sturdy to use. The Dropbox App Equidistant will be husbandless to "a subset of users" in beta today with increasingly than 40 of the company's ally on the platform. "Broader availability" is coming later this year, according to Dropbox.

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And finally, there's Dropbox Family, a family plan that lets you have six persons under one expression plan. Dropbox Family is rolling out to Dropbox Plus users in the abutting few weeks as well-conditioned as to all users later this year.

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