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I use a deterministic password generator so all I have to remember is my master password and default password scheme to get access to all my critical accounts (
by minitech 10y ago
I use a deterministic password generator so all I have to remember is my master password and default password scheme to get access to all my critical accounts (critical ones generally don’t have silly password requirements). If I were using something that stored passwords and lost my database somehow, I’d lose access to all of those.
- macintux 10y ago"lost my database somehow" I have mine in Dropbox and at least 3 devices. I'm really not concerned I'll lose it.
- lucaspiller 10y agoSame here. Plus my email uses a different strong password I remember, so if worse comes to worse, I can just reset everything.
- minitech 10y agoIf I were out of country and my laptop got stolen, for example, I’d lose it. Sure, you can use a separate password for your Dropbox/email/etc. that you remember, but that’s pretty much the same thing as generating based off a master password. (With the exception of your master password being brute-forceable based on any password you generate, but you just use a master + KDF combo that’s unbreakable to prevent that.)