On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:36:41 +0100 Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 11/04/2008 17:22, Scott Meyers wrote: > > Harold Fuchs wrote: > >> 1. How on earth do you keep track of all those humongous pass > >phrases? > > > > I use a program called Roboform (http://www.roboform.com/). I > > choose the phrases for each site (or have it choose one for me), it > > does the remembering. > So if anyone hacks your PC [or USB key] with Roboform [portable] on it > they have *all* your passwords. Hmmmmm. Or if the database crashes you > have *none* of your passwords. Hmmmmm. > >
I read about one of these programs online. It won't be Roboform, I think the bloke wrote it himself. Anyway you gave the program Your Prefered Username, the website URL and it remembered your first day of access. With a SHA1 hash and a bit of maths it generated the password on the fly for any site he visited. No password saved on disk at the client end. He never even learned his passwords. The program had a copy to clipboard button, then he pasted it into the login form. All he ever saw was the ************. His database of website URLs and Usernames was worth gold to him though. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
