By: manyameera

manyameera — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:17:48 +0000

may be i am one of them

By: Ashish Mundhra

Ashish Mundhra — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:52:19 +0000

I am using lastpass and am pretty satisfied with it

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will — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:33:08 +0000

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By: J. L.

J. L. — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:52:45 +0000

LastPass could be used to generate and store passwords as well. Also, the site can be accessed from any browser on any computer. I barely remember the last time I had to type a password online.

By: nivek_hcerg

nivek_hcerg — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:59:26 +0000

Well, AI RoboForm is a password manager amongst others, and it has a password generator.

By: duckne55

duckne55 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:51:59 +0000

just make it as long as possible and not a word or combination of words. the longer the password, the better it is protected from a brute force attack, and the less words you use the less likely a dictionary attack will work.
the rest is bullshit.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:47:48 +0000

I recently switched (about July 2009) to KeePass which runs on windows, linux, mac, bsd, solaris and is open source.

sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/

You can generate strong passwords right inside the program. I was one of those kind of people who had a black book with all kinds of scribbled nonsense in it. After about 4 months I have most of my passwords entered into KeePass. Trust me when I say it has not been fun getting the data into keepass from my black book, but the benefit far outweighs the initial annoyance.

I also love the fact it’s cross platform. Show up with a database on any platform and boom instant access to all your stuff.

This means if your using say sun’s virtual box to run three hypervisors (or virtual machines) you can have passwords for banking separated from just blogging or shopping. This again raises your entire networks security level.

I warn you though, switching over to a tool like keepass isn’t easy, there’s a certain amount of discipline involved in getting the data entered in, and afterwards as the database now becomes extremely important–a current backup.

Literally everything will be lost if the data base file is destroyed. Putting it on you to decide how to back it up. And it’s important you do back it up somewhere else besides your computer.

The benefit is, you can walk around from box to box, with all your passwords regardless of the platform. And since you no longer need to maintain lists in Opera, IE, Firefox, each of these can be, and should be cleansed.

While some might argue there are passwords out there you don’t care about, technically I think you’ll find you really don’t want someone else acting in your name on the web, while it might be only an annoyance, and no matter how insignificant, it is better to avoid it from the start.

Eventually you’ll want to add other passwords, like IRC, FTP, SSH, it’s not hard, just start a new group.

If you spend time sorting, classifying and organizing all of your passwords it does take your system’s security up a notch. Also if you get hit by something which is stealing your passwords, I found I can quickly (within about an hour) have every single important password replaced. Speed is important when your servers passwords are potentially compromised.

Since the files simply install to the directory of your choice. You have nothing to lose to check it out.