[clue] Password generation - oplop

[Keith Hellman]

I've installed KeePass for my wife's (work) notebook.  It seems to work
OK.

For myself, I use my own free-form text file that I edit only with the
gnupg.vim plugin.

And I have a ~/bin/randompasswd that will generate random passwords of
arbitrary bit strength.

It all stays on my notebook, encrypted backups are on my home server.

I have never considered storing my passwords on someone else's machine
--- I don't think I would.

When I travel I carry a USB drive with a windows version of gpg, my
private key, and the encrypted file --- just in case.

A reasonably strong passphrase is used for my private key.  I estimate
the strength to be about 35-46 bits.  That's all my feeble fingers have
the memory for.


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