<p dir="ltr">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.<br>
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 </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 18, 2012 11:19 PM, "Chris Fedde" <<a href="mailto:chris@fedde.us">chris@fedde.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I've used keepass, pwsafe, 1password, a sheet of paper in my billfold,<br>
OTP systems, dongles, thumb swipe and palm scanners. I've also used<br>
other worse techniques over the years. Sometimes it is self inflicted<br>
others it has been dictated by authority figures such as customers,<br>
departments, bosses and teams.<br>
<br>
Keepass, and pwsafe seem like reasonable approaches I like the<br>
cut-n-paste feature that these systems have.<br>
But I've never found one that works well for me on Linux and on Linux<br>
I find I don't typically need to enter passwords very often.<br>
<br>
The most successful and stable technique has been the piece of paper<br>
in my billfold. People are pretty good at that technique. We all keep<br>
a half dozen or so credit cards, ID cards, membership cards, frequent<br>
customer cards and such in our wallets and billfolds all the time. We<br>
are pretty good at keeping them safe and secret. We're also pretty<br>
good at recognizing when we loose them. And Bruce Schneier seems to<br>
agree: <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_your.html" target="_blank">http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_your.html</a><br>
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Gary Romero <<a href="mailto:randomincolorado@gmail.com">randomincolorado@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> You mean you guys aren't using KeePass?<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://keepass.info/download.html" target="_blank">http://keepass.info/download.html</a><br>
><br>
> -Gary<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tuesday, September 18, 2012, Chris Fedde wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:00 PM, David L. Anselmi <<a href="mailto:anselmi@anselmi.us">anselmi@anselmi.us</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > I'd rather use ssh keys than passwords. One of these<br>
>> > days I'll have to go on a crusade to get rid of all my web passwords and<br>
>> > use something else.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Dave<br>
>><br>
>> When you figure out how to do that I'll be interested to hear how.<br>
>> Passwords are probably the worst possible compromise between the needs<br>
>> for security and human nature.<br>
>><br>
>> Chris<br>
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