I use the same password for everything that will let me self select or change a password. Two letters (lower case) followed by six numbers will meet the parameters of 90% of the people who require passwords in this world. If they insist on shorter use the first part. If they insist on longer, start repeading.

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James E. LaBarre wrote:
Orion Vianna wrote:
Hello everyone. I know this question pops up every once in a while but I'm wondering what people from the MHVLUG are using to deal with all the many passwords that we have to keep today.

Another way would be to use a service online but that would not work when I need it off line. I'm thinking it might be interesting to put passwords in a USB key and protect them some how.

I've been using Keyring for Palm OS (http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net) for quite some time (over the 3 Palm units I've had). Unfortunately, it's development seems to have stagnated (just as the entire PalmOS seems to have stagnated), and JPilot is the only application able to synchronize with it (*if* you can get the hotsync to work under Linux). My next PDA might be a Blackberry, since it can be gotten _relatively_ cheap (at least used ones should be cheap) and there's active development there.

From my own research on this, Keepass (http://keepass.info) seems to be the best overall option. It runs on LOTS of platforms, synchronizes nicely between them, etc. It seems the only platform it doesn't run on is PalmOS.


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