I've tried something last night. Instead of using normal passwords with different patterns, like "ILoveMyKids9876" or "9876ILoveMyKids", I've decided to generate random strings of dozens of characters, one for each place where I need to use a password.
I've put all those strings in a Keychain Access note, in a form that's tricky enough to not be understood right away but then, I realized that: 1) everything in Keychain Access is available with the user login password 2) every time I tell OSX to remember such and such password, it is stored in a trivially easy to understand way in Keychain 3) if I am away from my machine I have _no_ way to remember any of the passwords I have, which keeps me from accessing a lot of online facilities (banks etc). Even worse if the machine dies... I am not being paranoid but I am wondering, as a SOHO, what is the best policy in terms of password management... Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
