[clue] Passwords (was Re: Website and git.)

[Duncan Fedde]

I find that writing down a password works fine but transcription of a
randomly generated password can be confusing even if you keep good notation
technics.
Also if you are in a situation that you are holding up a piece of paper up
and typing it in slowly any person behind you has plenty of time to copy it
down onto there own password sheet
On Sep 18, 2012 11:19 PM, "Chris Fedde" <chris at fedde.us> wrote:

> I've used keepass, pwsafe, 1password, a sheet of paper in my billfold,
> OTP systems, dongles, thumb swipe and palm scanners. I've also used
> other worse techniques over the years. Sometimes it is self inflicted
> others it has been dictated by authority figures such as customers,
> departments, bosses and teams.
>
> Keepass, and pwsafe seem like reasonable approaches   I like the
> cut-n-paste feature that these systems have.
> But I've never found one that works well for me on Linux and on Linux
> I find I don't typically need to enter passwords very often.
>
> The most successful and stable technique has been the piece of paper
> in my billfold.  People are pretty good at that technique. We all keep
> a half dozen or so credit cards, ID cards, membership cards, frequent
> customer cards and such in our wallets and billfolds all the time. We
> are pretty good at keeping them safe and secret. We're also pretty
> good at recognizing when we loose them.  And Bruce Schneier seems to
> agree: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_your.html
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Gary Romero <randomincolorado at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > You mean you guys aren't using KeePass?
> >
> > http://keepass.info/download.html
> >
> > -Gary
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, September 18, 2012, Chris Fedde wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:00 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I'd rather use ssh keys than passwords.  One of these
> >> > days I'll have to go on a crusade to get rid of all my web passwords
> and
> >> > use something else.
> >> >
> >> > Dave
> >>
> >> When you figure out how to do that I'll be interested to hear how.
> >> Passwords are probably the worst possible compromise between the needs
> >> for security and human nature.
> >>
> >> Chris
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