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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Is anyone still not using a Password Manager
by
Gareth Nelson
on 21/06/2011, 06:00:58 UTC
Hi All,


Considering all the recent cases where people's usage of passwords turned out to be less than optimal (and sometimes just negligent), allow me to recommend a free, user friendly, secure password manager: passpack.com.

It can create random passwords for you at many lengths, so you can have very secure passwords, and most important - a different one for each service you use, for each encrypted wallet file you create, for exchanges and whatever...

I am not related to passpack in any way, I just wanted to take this opportunity and help in case a few of you feel overwhelmed by the need to manage many secure passwords at once.

If anyone else has a different tool they prefer please share it as well.


Lets take security up a notch, for everyone's sake...




Or, you can generate them yourself on your own trusted hardware.
Take a linux netbook with no internet connection and run uuidgen a few times, memorise some of the results and store them in your brain.
If you MUST store passwords outside your brain, make sure that whatever you use to store the passwords remains on your person 24/7 even while sleeping.

DO NOT use a third-party website to generate passwords - it'd be trivial for that site to log all passwords it generates, and considering how easy it is to generate passwords yourself that stinks of a scam.