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My method of "remembering" passwords, yet not using the same password for everything, is that I created a simple hash function which I can compute in my head.
by lee 16y ago
My method of "remembering" passwords, yet not using the same password for everything, is that I created a simple hash function which I can compute in my head.
I take the name of the website I'm visiting as the input for the hash.
Probably not the safest method of creating passwords, but it's practical in that I get a unique password per site... and I access my list of unique passwords anywhere I go.
- jacquesm 16y agoSounds risky. After all there is at least one website where they now know that strategy and have access to your password for that site.
- Retric 16y agoThere are a lot of possible hash functions and little way to tell which one he is using.
- lee 16y agoIt's not perfect. But given a seemingly random string of characters, is it easy to deduce the exact hash function that I use?
- jacquesm 16y agoI don't know, let's have some examples ;)
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- phreeza 16y agoyou could use an actual password as a kind of salt.
- cdr 16y agoOft-suggested solution, plenty of existing implementations, eg passwordmaker.org.