[CODE4LIB] password lockboxes (was: what do you do: API accounts used by library software, that assume an individual is registered)

2013-03-05 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Mar 5, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Adam Constabaris wrote: An option is to use a password management program (KeepassX is good because it is cross platform) to store the passwords on the shared drive, although of course you need to distribute the passphrase for it around. So years ago, when I worked

Re: [CODE4LIB] password lockboxes (was: what do you do: API accounts used by library software, that assume an individual is registered)

2013-03-05 Thread Simon Spero
There are several known algorithms for Secret Sharing - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing Simon On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.govwrote: On Mar 5, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Adam Constabaris wrote: An option is to use a password management program

Re: [CODE4LIB] password lockboxes (was: what do you do: API accounts used by library software, that assume an individual is registered)

2013-03-05 Thread Alisak Sanavongsay
Last year, I ran across this password manager at http://codecanyon.net/item/password-manager/2145518 but I haven't gotten around to try to install it yet. Regards, Alisak. Alisak Sanavongsay  Digital Assets Programmer  http://library.ucmerced.edu  209.201.9073  asanavong...@ucmerced.edu