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"And by the way, if after reading this you still wish to use a traditional password manager, I suggest that you put your passwords into a plain text file and en
by IsaacL 16y ago
"And by the way, if after reading this you still wish to use a traditional password manager, I suggest that you put your passwords into a plain text file and encrypt it with GPG or use Password Safe."
Having recently had some significant trouble with a lost online banking password, I've been thinking about keeping all my passwords in an encrypted file stored in various places (I don't like the idea of using a password manager, because it's difficult to move it across platforms). Is this sensible from a security POV? Which is the best encryption to use and is there a standard *nix tool for it?
- troels 16y agoPGP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy) which GPG uses is the standard *nix tool for encryption. Depending on your needs, you could also have a look at TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/ http://www.truecrypt.org/)
- shin_lao 16y agoYou can use keepass which is open source and cross platform. http://keepass.info/download.html http://keepass.info/download.html It's much more convenient than a text file you cipher and decipher and it's more secure as well. A text file is prone to error (wrong copy/paste, forgot to cipher the file, etc.)
- strayer 16y ago> I don't like the idea of using a password manager, because it's difficult to move it across platforms http://clipperz.com http://clipperz.com is a very portable password manager. It works on your computer as well as online. It relies on your browser being a "secure" Javascript interpreter. But then we do that every time we log into a web site.