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Poll: How do you manage passwords?

• maguay 16y ago
  I personally have become reliant on Lastpass, though 1Password's style is luring me. Any pros/cons of each you know?
• jwashington 16y ago
  In head using mnemonics.
  • maguay 16y ago
    Neat. Do you ever have trouble remembering them, and do you write them down somewhere to make sure you don't lose them?
  • phlux 16y ago
    I do the same - buy I use visual patterns on the keyboard. Think swipe, but to make a shape or pattern with shift pressed at specific intersections.
• Sadranyc 16y ago
  Lastpass has freed me from generating complicated passwords and remembering them. It also syncs between all my browsers and even works in the iPhone. I couldn't ask for more.
• hapless 16y ago
  I use a traditional fat client application, keepassx: http://www.keepassx.org/ http://www.keepassx.org/ Runs equally well on OSX, Windows, Linux/X11. It supports "autotype" so that you don't have to fool with copy/paste.
• bartonfink 16y ago
  Piece of paper in my wallet. I got the idea from Bruce Schneier, he says we're pretty good about keeping track of other pieces of paper there, and it's more secure than many other alternatives for frequently changing passwords.
• shaneknysh 16y ago
  I tried LastPass but the use of password offline and for non-web based applications was not working for me. The tools were awkward and difficult to use. Went back to using KeePassX (http://www.keepassx.org http://www.keepassx.org) with Dropbox sync. The biggest thing I learned: Putting passwords into LastPass was super easy and well thought out. Getting passwords out of LastPass was 'sub-optimal'.
• schellack 16y ago
  1Password with DropBox sync works flawlessly for me. I love it.
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• daflip 16y ago
  I use small set of passwords (in my head) combined with the pwdhash browser extension - https://www.pwdhash.com/ https://www.pwdhash.com/ E2A: There's a chrome extension available too - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dnfmcfhnhnpoehjoommondmlmhdoonca https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dnfmcfhnhnpoehjo...
• tallpapab 16y ago
  Paper
• spinlock 16y ago
  I used to go with the 1 secure password for all sites. But then, it became painfully obvious that most sites don't treat your password with the respect it deserves (i.e. hash that shit and never store it in plain text). So, what I do now, is keep one secure password and then modify it based on the url of the site that I'm joining. This way, I just have to remember one password plus my algorithm for modifying it so that it's site specific. It works well until I come across a site (like my broker) that won't let me use "special" characters. It really makes me want to change brokers because if they were handling my passwords correctly - hashing them - they would never know what characters I use.
• jhanlon 16y ago
  Roboform
• lauri 16y ago
  In crypted text file by using the method described at http://emacs.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/keeping-your-secrets-secret/ http://emacs.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/keeping-your-secrets-s... This file is synced with DropBox and added to my emacs bookmarks.
• zmn 16y ago
  We are experimenting with Clipperz Community Edition (the private version of the online Clipper) (http://www.clipperz.com/ http://www.clipperz.com/). We prefer the community edition because tt - somehow - feels better to have our (encrypted) data on one of our servers.
• samlevine 16y ago
  I use Password Safe and Dropbox. I got the idea a few years ago from a blog post Joel Spolsky wrote: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/11b.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/11b.html
• agj 16y ago
  I use a crude script to make a custom hash of a password http://dpaste.com/hold/382522/ http://dpaste.com/hold/382522/ I use the two arguments: a master password, and a common name. I only know one of my passwords off the top of my head.