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Password storage
How do you save your passwords? Use just one for all sites? Use the
availaple password saving apps? Other? I'm thinking of putting them on note paper and storing with my list of telephone numbers. Most are currently forgotten. Suggestions? TIA -- I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook. |
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KenK wrote:
How do you save your passwords? Use just one for all sites? Use the availaple password saving apps? Other? I'm thinking of putting them on note paper and storing with my list of telephone numbers. Most are currently forgotten. I use an algorithm that I can remember. It contains the TLD (.com, ..org, .net, or whatever, and in normal or reverse order) but without the period character, my initials (can be reversed or in some other order, but the same order everywhere), the site's domain (first N chars, last N chars, 2nd to Nth chars, or whatever you like), my birthdate (day and month, or month and year, in that order or reversed, or the entire string reversed), and some punctionuation characters around each substring. Some of the substrings (separated by punctuation chars) are uppercased, or mixed upper/lowercase, but which chars are upper or lower are alwasy the same. Many sites require 2 uppercased chars. One of my substrings is all uppercase and another is mixed case. That's just one example of a pattern that is memorable after you decided on one. I come up with a pattern that is memorable. When I visit a site, the algorithm is the same but the domain and TLD change, so the password is unique to that site. The substrings for each piece of data can be in any order, but it's the same order at every site. You come up with a string that has substrings of data you can remember and/or are unique to the site you visit. Alas, some sites force you to change passwords, so I might have to change the punctuation characters between substrings, or comply with some other oddball requirement of the site. So, I saved all my passwords in a OneNote notebook. That gets synchronized to my Hotmail/Outlook.com account. Each section of that notebook is password encoded. It is NOT the same password as my Hotmail login. So, a hacker would need to get past my Hotmail account's login and then figure out the password to my OneNote notebook. If I need to look at my passwords, I'll have to remember the one to my Hotmail account and the password for my OneNote notebook. I use the Hotmail account quite often, so that gets reinforced often to keep in memory. The OneNote notebook's password is the same as my desktop PC's login, and my PC's password isn't used anywhere other than on that PC. Since my PC is setup to lockup after an idle timeout (screensaver w/login required), that password gets drilled into memory. Since my Hotmail account and PC use strong passwords, getting past 2 strong passwords to get into my OneNote notebook would be damn tough. If you want availability of your passwords wherever you are (i.e., via the Web), there are lots of ways to do that than using passworded OneNote notebooks in passworded online accounts. For example, Avast (which I no longer use) has a password manager that's available via Web: https://www.avast.com/en-us/passwords#pc If you use Google's Chrome web browser, they also have an extension for their service. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...diiojmdlmlkoik If you have an Android smartphone, they have an app, too: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...asswordmanager If you have an iOS smartphone, yep, they have an app for that, too: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/avast-...s/id1037779526 My scheme got setup before I bothered hunting around for online protected storage of passwords, so I don't bother investigating them. I only did the search on Avast Passwords, because I remember seeing mention of those apps or features when I used to use Avast Free as an anti-virus on my desktop PC. My guess is the apps and service are oriented to storing passwords; however, you also mentioned phone numbers (wouldn't those be in your phone)? |
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Ken,
I'm thinking of putting them on note paper That is one of the safest places to store them - as long as they are not stored in the never-locked top-drawer of your workplaces desk that is. :-) Added benefit: Paper cannot crash (and make all the contents inaccessible). Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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On 22 Nov 2019 22:36:30 GMT, KenK wrote:
How do you save your passwords? Use just one for all sites? Never, if one site is hacked, the first thing they do is try your password on other sites. Use the availaple password saving apps? Well, I do have a TrueCrypt container with the passwords, copied to various locations, but I very rarely open it. Other? I'm thinking of putting them on note paper and storing with my list of telephone numbers. Most are currently forgotten. Suggestions? You gave it. Paper. And if you use easy-to-remember passphrases instead of words, they'll be harder to crack. 1should!beonglugle! That's a hard to crack password for a gmail account. Don't use it, it's mine!** []'s ** not really. -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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