Online passwords

[slowmotion]

I've heard very good things about KeePass.

Is there a safe download site for KeePass? I got bumped to SourceForge( or something) and that kind of stuff always makes me a tad nervous. Can anybody post a safe link and suggest which version of the software to use?

Thanks.

 

[MossCommuter]

SourceForge

Safe

 

[slowmotion]

^^^^^ Thanks.

 

[martint235]

Safe

+1. Once you start having a look round SourceForge you'll find all kinds of useful stuff!!

 

[ufkacbln]

use your car reg or a full birthday with your initials added I.E ... RP18041958 something along them lines, simple and easy to remember ... now what was my password again?

.... Or simply add the site to the password

GL52BOTCC for Cyclechat

 

[asterix]

I use an enhanced version of the Enigma machine. I'll be fine so long as they don't capture my U-boat.

 

[Simba]

I have so many and such a short memory span that I virtually have to get an email each time to remind me. Do you write them down, have a good memory, just have one-word fits all?

I came across this password memoriser. Is it good, safe?

I just get my browser to save them.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

KeePass for financial or confidential stuff, and a simple rule/algorithm based on some fixed info about the site I log into. Jazz it up with 'vowel substitution' A = 4, E = 3, I = 1 O = 0

 

[Dan B]

http://xkcd.com/936/ has some pretty sound advice, at least for any site that doesn't have a max password length. You need to make sure the four random words really are random though, and not "favourite words"

I use the "initial letters of obscure song lyrics" a lot myself, but some day someone is going to hear me humming the song whenever I log in and the jig will be up.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

http://xkcd.com/936/ has some pretty sound advice, at least for any site that doesn't have a max password length. You need to make sure the four random words really are random though, and not "favourite words"

I use the "initial letters of obscure song lyrics" a lot myself, but some day someone is going to hear me humming the song whenever I log in and the jig will be up.

Ha, I was JUST about to post that

 

[goo_mason]

Whilst I can usually get by OK with the passwords for websites etc I visit at home, I have a major headache with all of the passwords I have to remember at work. Multiple platforms and systems, each with their own password rules & restriction and they all expire after different lengths of time.

I've started writing down hints to myself as to each system's password, because I usually end up locking myself out of something I desperately need to use, and it's always just after 7am when there's a 2hr wait until there's someone around on the helpdesk who can reset it!

 

[benb]

It's very important to have a different password for each important site. I.E. if one is compromised, you don't want the person having access to your other sites.

I have a different password for absolutely everything.

How? I use LastPass. It plugs in to all browsers, and you can access your vault via the website too, if you are on a different PC from usual.

That way you only need to remember one password - the one to access your vault.

 

[thnurg]

This all reminds me of the system my Mum used to have for hiding a spare housekey.

First of all, get into the back garden, either over the tall side gate, or via the neighbour's house and garden.
Then find the correct rock in the rockery. Lift it, and find a key to the brick coalshed, now home to the freezer and various tupperware and storage tins.
Open shed, and find correct tupperware.
Open it and find house key.

She has a key safe now, with a combination....

You reminded me of this.

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[subaqua]

This all reminds me of the system my Mum used to have for hiding a spare housekey.

First of all, get into the back garden, either over the tall side gate, or via the neighbour's house and garden.
Then find the correct rock in the rockery. Lift it, and find a key to the brick coalshed, now home to the freezer and various tupperware and storage tins.
Open shed, and find correct tupperware.
Open it and find house key.

She has a key safe now, with a combination....

that sounds like the key philosophy in work for the HV switchgear

 

[aberal]

It's very important to have a different password for each important site. I.E. if one is compromised, you don't want the person having access to your other sites.

I have a different password for absolutely everything.

How? I use LastPass. It plugs in to all browsers, and you can access your vault via the website too, if you are on a different PC from usual.

That way you only need to remember one password - the one to access your vault.

That sounds good. The worry would be....how secure is LastPass? Sounds like a goldmine to the average Russian hacker.