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What's the current state of the art in keeping track of passwords and PINs? I have a folder in my house full of various papers and cards with passwords and PINs
by johan_larson 10y ago
What's the current state of the art in keeping track of passwords and PINs? I have a folder in my house full of various papers and cards with passwords and PINs dating back to the mid-nineties. Surely not the best solution, but at least I don't carry the thing on me or put the data online.
- Freestyler_3 10y agoPrograms like keepass are good solutions. I run it in a cloud setting, with a back up on multiple of my own devices. A good strong master password is important.
- arthulia 10y agooffline password managers are pretty good.
- NoGravitas 10y agoI think the standard would be to use a password manager such as KeePass, with a long random passphrase such as five to six words chosen truly randomly from a large dictionary. A folder or notebook in your house is not terrible, actually, since it lets you avoid reusing passwords (though it won't generate strong passwords for you like a password manager will). Harder to back up. You might want to keep it in a fireproof safe.
- bryanlarsen 10y agoWriting down passwords may not be the best solution, but it's probably a better solution than most: https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2010/11/bruce_schneier_write.html https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2010/11/bruce_schneie...