best place to store passwords?

leesmithg

leachy wrote:

what and where is the best secure place to put all the passwords I have, ie piece of paper or is there a place I can store them on my computer?Any responses welcomed cheers leachy

In your grey matter.

Zebra

Downloaded Keepass and seems to be just what I need! :T

I now want to take my security a step further.

I am concerned that if my laptop is stolen etc then I could lose a lot of important information.

Can I save the passwords in Keepass onto disc?

Also how can I protect other documents eg scanned copies of passport etc?

Are there any other security issues that I should be addressing?

sra

Zebra wrote:

Can I save the passwords in Keepass onto disc?

Yes.

The idea is that the database is encrypted so you can move that about anywhere you want to.

Zebra wrote:

Also how can I protect other documents eg scanned copies of passport etc?

Truecrypt, mentioned above, is probably one of the best and most secure solutions.

Microsoft have just released something - but I haven't tried it yet and I don't know anything about it's encryption:
Private Folder.

One easy and simple little solution is Yadabyte Disk. You don't install anything to your computer, you just download a copy and make as many copies as you like.

Pop a copy in any folder you want to encrypt and double-click it. Anything in that folder or the sub folders will be encrypted.

Zebra

Thanks again sra!

I've looked in the help section of Keepass, but can't find anything about saving the data to disc.

I'll take a look at Truecrypt and Yadabyte disc sounds very useful, I presume it isn't quite as secure as Truecrypt.

sra

Zebra wrote:

Thanks again sra!

I've looked in the help section of Keepass, but can't find anything about saving the data to disc.

I'll take a look at Truecrypt and Yadabyte disc sounds very useful, I presume it isn't quite as secure as Truecrypt.

There's a little about Keepass here.

I can't remember what happens when you first run Keepass - it might have come with a sample dateabase in the folder or it might have asked where you want to save the information (It would be a file called something like Database.kdb)

You can save this database seperately if you just want to back it up (just take a copy and put it onto disk), or you could keep it in the Keepass folder and just save the whole folder onto disk so that you have a copy of the program as well.

Re Truecrypt - If you listen to the Security Now episode I linked to above they do nothing for the entire show but praise how well it has been thought out

pchelpman

leesmithg wrote:

In your grey matter.

Not in my case....!! Tell me ... what day is it again?

leesmithg

leachy wrote:

what and where is the best secure place to put all the passwords I have, ie piece of paper or is there a place I can store them on my computer?Any responses welcomed cheers leachy

I store all mine in my memory, located in my brain.

Passwords are usually 14-60 long with characters such as !£$%¬*^&8HN__kjaja^yh6 etc scrambled in sequence.

Just practise using them and you will remember them.

Easy as that.

Lord_Chris

this really makes me laugh, the majority of you people are a hackers dream.

lets make something very clear NO SECURITY IS UNBREAKABLE

as Leesmithg said, remember your passwords.

the whole idea of passwords is that you dont write them down or store them on your computer. If you really have that much difficulty remembering passwords you can buy a fingerprint scanner from amazon for around £30 which stores passwords for you (for websites etc.) and all you have to do is give your thumbprint... of course, as i said, no security is unbreakable.

Miller_3

Open a word document and add all your private stuff into it.

Thats what I do. It works for me.

Lord_Chris

Miller wrote:

Open a word document and add all your private stuff into it.

Thats what I do. It works for me.

dont suppose (just to make my day and point) that you save it as "passwords" or "hackers come here, this contains all my details" do you?

people B*it*h about the amount of crime thats commited on the internet, but the majority of the time, its people like you who are the victims, because your so stupid as to store sensitive details on a word document.

heres a happy thought? next time somebody you know is the victim of internet crime, such as having their credit card details stolen, why dont you go ahead and ask them if they stored those same details on a word document entitled "credit card details" and then ask them if they painted a nice fat bullseye right on their desktop aswell.

i dont like criminals, ivenever broken the law in my life, but people like Miller over here really do deserve everything they get.