Wow! I thought I was using looong passwords with 25 characters. I should reconsider
Recommendations on password manager
Re: Recommendations on password manager
I used lastpass for years, but felt it was getting too complicated and was not working on an increasing number of sites (I'm primarily in Vivaldi or Slimjet, both Chromium-based). I've found Bitwarden to be very good in both form and function, and have been with it for well over a year. If you're shy of the cloud you can set up your own server, which I don't bother with so no installation is necessary. There's a support forum on reddit.
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Re: Recommendations on password manager
Great! Thanks for your input!paul1149 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 1:08 pm I've found Bitwarden to be very good in both form and function, and have been with it for well over a year. If you're shy of the cloud you can set up your own server, which I don't bother with so no installation is necessary. There's a support forum on reddit.
The possibility to set one's own server sounds interesting. I don't have any clue as how I can do such a thing, but maybe on their support forum I can get some ideas.
Thanks again!
Re: Recommendations on password manager
Mathematically speaking, a simple password with the same number of digits is just as hard to crack with brute force as a complicated, impossible-to-remember one:
versus
have the same amount of "hardness".
https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
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https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
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It's the old 500 monkeys typing will eventually type War & Peace saying...
Pax vobiscum,
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Re: Recommendations on password manager
So the conclusion is: use a loooooooooooong-easy-to-remember-password.
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Re: Recommendations on password manager
Over the years I've tried a lot: the best I've found are Enpass and Bitwarden
Bitwarden, you have to log in to their site, Enpass is on your box.
The main issue with Enpass is that their update's very often break it. Severely.
Bitwarden, you have to set it to not log you out every damn time you close your browser!!!!!! (There is a setting, thanking whoever finally)
If Enpass could get their act together, it would be unbeatable.
And as for
Try picking a phrase that only you know, then write it down.
For example, "greengrass" or "sink the bismarck"
If you look at that, there are umpteen different ways you can modify that by using upper/lower case, numbers, symbols, and substituting "leet numbers" for letters, like 3 for E, 1 for I, etc., you know what I mean. Make sure that repeating characters have different symbols. Like one 3 actually is a 3, the next is an E, etc etc
With just a couple of expressions, and your own little substitution formula, the odds of any one cracking your password get really big. There are technical articles available about this, but I bookmarked them on a dead box, just going by memory now. Look 'em up.
But you can get tons of easily remembered passwords this way, just by remembering your phrase and your substitution rule. Feel free to write these last 2 down , 'cuz no one will know what they mean.
Bitwarden, you have to log in to their site, Enpass is on your box.
The main issue with Enpass is that their update's very often break it. Severely.
Bitwarden, you have to set it to not log you out every damn time you close your browser!!!!!! (There is a setting, thanking whoever finally)
If Enpass could get their act together, it would be unbeatable.
And as for
one view is that this is self defeating. Because you can't remember a lot ofSo the conclusion is: use a loooooooooooong-easy-to-remember-password.
things.loooooooooooong
Try picking a phrase that only you know, then write it down.
For example, "greengrass" or "sink the bismarck"
If you look at that, there are umpteen different ways you can modify that by using upper/lower case, numbers, symbols, and substituting "leet numbers" for letters, like 3 for E, 1 for I, etc., you know what I mean. Make sure that repeating characters have different symbols. Like one 3 actually is a 3, the next is an E, etc etc
With just a couple of expressions, and your own little substitution formula, the odds of any one cracking your password get really big. There are technical articles available about this, but I bookmarked them on a dead box, just going by memory now. Look 'em up.
But you can get tons of easily remembered passwords this way, just by remembering your phrase and your substitution rule. Feel free to write these last 2 down , 'cuz no one will know what they mean.
Last edited by Captain Brillo on Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:05 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Recommendations on password manager
Thanks Captain Brillo for the input!
I guess Enpass had passed under my radar (like too many other things). I never knew of it. I appreciate all the alternatives to look into.
Edit: Thanks for elaborating further on the subject. interesting ideas.
I guess Enpass had passed under my radar (like too many other things). I never knew of it. I appreciate all the alternatives to look into.
Edit: Thanks for elaborating further on the subject. interesting ideas.
Re: Recommendations on password manager
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Re: Recommendations on password manager
I use the password manager in Firefox which has always worked well for me. It's the only part of the Firefox browsers that the developers at Mozilla haven't broken yet.
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