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You can use a easy trick to have a unique password for each website you need to log in into: 1- Choose a common base ie. laroS-14 2- Take the two first charac
by hartator 12y ago
You can use a easy trick to have a unique password for each website you need to log in into:
1- Choose a common base ie. laroS-14
2- Take the two first characters of your login and slide one character back in the alphabet ie. mylogin = lx
3- Take the two first characters of the websites and slide again one character back in the alphabet ie. dropbox = cq
4- Concatenate 1-2-3 ie. laroS-14-lx-cq
Voilà! You have now uniq combinaisons for each website/login. Of course, change the rules to suit your habit and make it yours. It's stronger than using an external service or a software and you don't have to rely on anything!
- weavejester 12y ago> It's stronger than using an external service or a software How do you figure? Your scheme clearly has less entropy than a randomly generated string of the same length, and if an attacker learn two of your passwords, then they know they only have four characters to brute force for every other password you possess.
- lectrick 12y agoYour scheme suffers from low Kolmogorov complexity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity You're better off just doing something like concatenating a secret password with the fully qualified domain name and sha256'ing that and using that. Or using a "correct horse battery staple" XKCD password generator (I'd use 5 or 6 random words, though, at this point).