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Jimbo:
You have to have multiple passwords these days for the reasons the op stated: everywhere has different requirements as to what is accepted.  Personally, I use a similar password for most stuff, and use a nice little utility called "coolfish" that encrypts text/files with a master password (using blowfish encryption). 

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on September 18, 2008, 10:37:06 am ---It sounds like you are finally beginning to appreciate my problem, actually.

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I appreciated it when you first posted it... and I have been suggesting using an old school method to solve a new school problem.  Some things are best kept physically secure and completely separate from the medium.  Things like password managers are only as secure as the hacker's abilities and motivation allow it to be.

shmokes:
But if I have to have a bunch of different passwords (that are becoming increasingly more difficult to commit to memory because of symbol, case and number requirements), and they are all stored on paper at home, but I do a good deal, if not the bulk of my computing from various public computers . . .

xar256:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 18, 2008, 10:15:32 am ---If your company were doing it correctly you'd be using your network login to get into all of the internal apps.  Password managers aren't the way going forward - LDAP based single sign on is the way.

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Tell that to the mainframe system running TPF that half those passwards are for.  Not everything uses that kind of technology.  Plus my company does not allow certain password to be the same as others.


--- Quote from: shmokes on September 18, 2008, 10:20:25 am ---Will Password Safe run in the background and fill out forms automatically, or at least intelligently with a click or two?  The reason I only use a few different passwords is because I don't want to stop what I'm doing and look up passwords for every site I need to log into, of which there are probably at least a hundred by now.  I'm willing to accept a bit of risk in return for a bit of convenience.  The Firefox password manager is awesome, but not something I think to back up when I reformat my computer, so I end up losing all that pretty regularly.

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I don't use it like that, but supposedly it does have that option. 

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on September 18, 2008, 10:58:34 am ---But if I have to have a bunch of different passwords (that are becoming increasingly more difficult to commit to memory because of symbol, case and number requirements), and they are all stored on paper at home, but I do a good deal, if not the bulk of my computing from various public computers . . .

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Then for the most part your problem is the fact that you do the bulk of your computing from public computers.  So long as that is a requirement you're going to have password security issues.  I know you can't fix that, but when you use public bathrooms all the time, you have to use the paper ass gaskets.

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