Passwords coming out of my ears

[R Melder at SPiN Internet Media]

I have a friend who wrote a little app to store passwords. Free to =
download,
I think. You all can hack it to pieces. It's VB... Sorry. :-p

http://www.khthulhu.net/
Crypt Keeper 1.0 is a program which stores any number of logins and
passwords, so your brain doesn't have to.

; ) .randy
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 ..:: Randy Melder ::..
 602-279-0135 - www.spininternetmedia.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Ed =
Skinner
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:57 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Passwords coming out of my ears


     I have accounts, logins and passwords at fifty (50) [exactly!] =
systems=20
that are either a) here in the office or b) "out there" on the Internet=20
somewhere. These include hotmail.com, the company that has the mortgage =
on
my=20
house, amazon.com, jazz-sax.com, sourceforge.net, paypay.com, and so =
forth.
     If I were a good doobie, I'd have a different password for each one =
of=20
these, something not based on a dictionary word, something with letters =
and=20
numbers, ... you know the drill.
     But fifty passwords? Fifty login names? Fifty system web addresses?
     Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!

     So, what do you do to keep track of all this? Do you:
1) Have the memory of an elephant?
2) Keep the account names, system names and passwords in a [horror!] =
clear=20
text file you can search when needed?
3) Keep the above data encrypted but, still in a file (and under the=20
protection of a single "master" password)?
4) Keep everything on PostIt notes stuck here and there?
5) Use only two or three passwords over and over, a "good" one for =
secure=20
websites, a "bad" one for unsecure sites that send you the password in=20
cleartext Email every now and then, and a "throwaway" in case all else
fails?
6) ... What?

     I'm mostly in category #3 at the moment but uncomfortable having =
all my

goodies protected by a single master key (on a system that is,
theoretically,=20
"safe" behind my firewall -- Oh God, now I've thrown down the gauntlet =
to
the=20
crackers in Phoenix!)
     How do you deal with all these accounts, names and passwords?

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Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/

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