William wrote:
Bill Spikowski wrote:
Rick Merrill wrote:
Bill Spikowski wrote on 04/27/2015 8:46 AM:
No practical reason????????
What about seeing what one is typing when entering complex passwords?
Think especially about these situations: a lousy keyboard, like most
laptops; working in a dark area; using a touchscreen; people with
dyslexia, or poor typing skills; the visually impaired; or those
having several hundred passwords for different sites.
Oh, come: how about the wireless kbd that transmits the keycodes?
Is your office a TEMPEST design?
No idea what a TEMPEST office is.
Would never use a wireless keyboard.
I use LastPass myself, but I don't tell other people that my password
solution is the only valid one. Lots of people don't understand password
managers, or don't trust them; or are the only users of their computers,
and don't need the extra complexity.
I've been using Lastpass since someone pointed out that SeaMonkey's
password manager does not encrypt your passwords; good for looking a
forgotten one up, but not good for security. Before that I kept my
passwords in a blank field in the bookmark for the site, but typed
backward as my gesture to security.
I think lastpass keeps your passwords on your pc, but in an encrypted
form: when you need a password, their program undecrypts it, but
displays it as a series of asterisks. The problem I have is that some
enterprises that put out multiple programs (such as Intuit with Quicken
and Turbotax) have moved to having a single password for all their
programs and when you register for a second program (or often, it seems,
a new page in the program) Lastpass does not recognize the relationship
between the multiple programs, and cutting and pasting a bunch of
asterisks doesn't work. This user unfriendly scheme takes up a lot of
my time going to all the pages and entering a new password. The obvious
solution is to allow the user to see the password in unencrypted form
(you do need a password to get into Lastpass) but apparently they don't
recognize this as a problem.
Keepass2 in it's normal state shows asterisks however, you can have it
show the password as text and you can ever copy and paste if you need to.
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