Any safe place for keeping passwords?

Lakeuk

I use keepass with a long passphrase with certain bits changed so if someone figures out what the phrase they still won't get in without knowing the suttle changes

Also I one keep less important passwords like forum logon, other more important ones stay in my head but at least I don't have many of those to remember.

timmmers

I keep a notpad file on datakey, another copy on DVDRAM and print it from time to time...I store hints on my mobile as notes too. Anything on the datakey is a jpeg image of the notepad file list...with a name that doesn't suggest it's content. JPEG is really hard to crack for a password you have to look at it. Some sign up pages I sabe as screenies too...in case I forget the email addy I used in the far future.

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linni

I pick a subject every few months i.e. foods, plants, animals and put a date in it i.e. year, month, time and so I have a 'themed' password which helps me remember.

pandora205

I use an old diary with lists of passwords written in mnemonic form, e.g. first dog + 1 for rover1, etc. It's kept tucked away in a pile of junk in my study. I've started doing something similar at work.

mr_fishbulb

isofa wrote: »

Also remember to use letters, numbers and preferably symbols. Nothing someone could guess.

There is a good nmemonic generator here: http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/password-generator.htm

KeePass also has a generator built in.

david39

I used to keep my bank accounts' user numbers and password numbers at home on the underside of my graphics tablet on my desk. I just looked under the tablet each time I logged on. It didn't say what the numbers were, so I thought they were pretty safe there, until two things happened within a fortnight:

1 I went on holiday and found I needed to transfer some money from one account to another - guess what - no graphics tablet in the internet cafe!

2 Changed my OS from XP to Vista - graphics tablet didn't work on Vista so binned it on the morning the refuse collection was made. Lost the numbers altogether.

Isn't it strange how you get a mental block about something you type in every day?

kippen_noedel

good passwords contain a mix of upper/lower case letters, numbers and punctuation characters

a mix of only 10 of these 0123456789AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz <>!"#£$%&'()*+,-./:

eg <£0.12Af>! is beyond the capability of even a supercomputer to crack by brute force, or luck, in less than a number years

have a theme that you are familiar with and create a range of passwords that fit with the website/computer/programme you are using

Antispam

I save passwords like bank accounts in a word document which is then zipped up with 128bit encryption at the strong setting. Its a passworded then but I dont use a obvious password

mr_fishbulb

Antispam wrote: »

I save passwords like bank accounts in a word document which is then zipped up with 128bit encryption at the strong setting. Its a passworded then but I dont use a obvious password

Both word and an archiving program will write temporary files to the disk which will be unencrypted. You could have copies of the passwords splattered all over your hard drive. An app like keepass will not write the passwords to disk at any stage, and keep them encrypted whilst in memory.

robt_2

What is wrong with just saving them in a notepad file on your desktop called passwords.txt?

If you want to keep them in your head and don't want to remember dozens of different ones, choose a master password for example "!cFth8r" (or whatever, the longer the better) and add a prefix or suffix, for example this site could be "!cFth8rMSE", on-line banking could be "!cFth8rIB" (IB for Internet Banking). You get the idea.