Any safe place for keeping passwords?

dkmulvey

albionrovers wrote: »

I use the same password for everything and keep it in my head.

How I wish I were the MSE forum admin right now....

Kerching! :dance:

Antispam

It deletes the temporary file when the document is closed which I only use for a minute or less to store bank deletes other paswords are stored with roboform

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

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.

jamespir

robo form is okay for that

timmmers

dkmulvey wrote: »

How I wish I were the MSE forum admin right now....

Kerching! :dance:

Which is exactly why you should never do it.

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gingerscot

I'm not sure about the strength/security of my method of remembering my 10's of passwords.

I store a randomly named text file in my online email account which has all my passwords hidden within an list of numbers (fair obvious for me to find them).

So basically in theory I only need two passwords, one to login to my online email account and also to remember what I named the txt file. Actually thinking about it.....if you found my email password and searched for the extension file it would probably come up. You would then still have hundreds of numbers to search through but...

Ah well, nothing is totally secure as they say! And I've made it less secure by talking about it here:rolleyes:

fayraz

I use an iPhone app called mSecure to store all my passwords. You can also download their app for the PC which lets you backup your passwords from the phone or restore them back.

stuh20

I love KeePass as it's free! I've tried loads of the freeware/open source password managers and have to say none compare to it. At least every website will have it's own unique password thanks to the inbuilt password generator. KeePass also helps bypass keyloggers as you can drag and drop usernames & passwords which is especially handy if using an Internet Cafe or library computer you don't trust although dependent on whether USB hasn't been disabled.

I've worked in IT for many years and lol when reading robt's post - I've actually seen this on the desktops of shared PC's!!!

Also good shout John Gray - using Steganos LockNote which is also worth looking into if you just want a simple file to securely store your info.

Summary, if you use KeePass, LockNote or any password manager the key is to use a really strong password and keep the database file safe.
As for online password managers - I wouldn't trust them in the slightest, in this day and age with keyloggers rife if one of these captures this then all your accounts are exposed in one swoop. Not for me thanks!