For my home server I use a yubikey to connect via ssh. For everything else, I 
use lastpass. You can also use a yubikey for two-factor with lastpass.

I'd also like to point out that the entropy of a password isn't exactly the 
best metric. For example, it would take about 8.52 hundred-million centuries to 
guess the password "0wen............", but only 18.62 centuries to guess 
"B&ITu6rv^BF" (at about one-hundred billion guesses per second).

You might want to consider picking a longer password, but one that's much 
easier to remember.

-Jon

On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> Well, yet another scare today ... an email to me from the name of
> someone I know but from a bogus email address.  You know: "best
> friend" <[email protected]>.
> 
> So I've looked into cranking up the password security a bit.
> 
> It seems that the two most important ideas are:
> 1 - Long passwords
> 2 - Unique passwords, different for each site
> 
> I realize password managers (keepass, 1password, ..) can generate
> gibberish passwords, any length you'd like.  But it'd be nice to be
> able to remember them yourself.  Besides, password managers don't work
> everywhere in these days of the "app" because they are browser
> centric.
> 
> So looking into common pw formulas, like http://healthypasswords.com/
> & lifehacker http://goo.gl/hZ5rB propose, the site specific stunt is
> something like: az@xxxxx!yyy "sandwich" where I have a core xxxx or
> set of them, with prefix/postfix identifiers.  In this case, az for
> amazon, and yyy for something else like b00ks.  And yes you can
> scramble where az goes etc, but once a formula is seen, it's not going
> to be that hard to figure it out for google etc.
> 
> Thus, even tho long and unique, it still could be fragile.
> 
> So the choice does appear to be either a password manager and
> gibberish, or a nifty, human rememberable system that may be fragile.
> 
> Has anyone tried the two-factor stunt? Google uses sms & your phone.
> I don't know what it would be like to use, but many sites lately allow
> you to login via google, facebook and others, so if the google login
> is 2-factor secure, maybe that's a good solution? Seems like it might
> be a pain and fail if your phone isn't working.
> 
>   -- Owen
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