A couple of weeks ago, PerlTricks ran a little article on using KeePass (as a file format) to secure your data, which prompted me to dust off and finish some code I'd started sometime last year.

The problem with using File::KeePass (as astoundingly fantastic as it is!) is that the point of using KeePass in the first place is to keep you from having to see passwords at all (once you've started the KeePass utility and logged int…