Software As Good as "Roboform"?

Gillor

23n1th wrote: »

Just for info you can create seemingly complicated passwords from the vast amount of useless cr4p in your head for example the nursery rhyme:

Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away

Take the first letter of each word gives you a 26 random letter password you'll never forget: lmmsohtehcawacaswsdbhafmma

You can then make every second or third letter a capital even harder. If you want harder simply use the first letter of each syllable: ltmmfsohtfethcawalcasdwsdbshaftmmfaw

Not hard enough count the syllables as well: l1tmm2fsoht3fe4thcawa5lcas6dwsdb7shaf8tmm9fa10w

Simple rhyme you'll never forget brilliant passwords.

Brilliant! But how do you remember which combination and quantity of of letters you have allocated to which site - I have over 50 sites I use, some regularly some a couple of times a year.

And some sites will accept only a limited number of characters per password - how do you remember which way you truncated your formula to make it fit.

I still think it's not the sites that are forgetting your password, it's probably your multiple attempts to get the right password for the right site. And I certainly wouldn't attempt to type a password of 26 characters without using something like the Firefox Unhide Password add-on.

Getting getting back on topic (although by now I am sure the OP has lost interest completely) everything you have explained so far is making a very good case for using a password manager - any password manager!

I just happen to use LastPass, find it simple and easy to use and I don't have to remember anything apart from my LastPass password. It even generates random passwords so I don't have think about those either.

23n1th

Gillor wrote: »

Brilliant! But how do you remember which combination and quantity of of letters you have allocated to which site - I have over 50 sites I use, some regularly some a couple of times a year.

I write down reminders like say for this forum if it was the password above I would write the title of the rhyme and a clue as to which letters etc. Its rather easy once you get used to it.

And some sites will accept only a limited number of characters per password - how do you remember which way you truncated your formula to make it fit.

As above.

I still think it's not the sites that are forgetting your password, it's probably your multiple attempts to get the right password for the right site. And I certainly wouldn't attempt to type a password of 26 characters without using something like the Firefox Unhide Password add-on.

I did say I was joking in my original post.

Getting getting back on topic (although by now I am sure the OP has lost interest completely) everything you have explained so far is making a very good case for using a password manager - any password manager!

I just happen to use LastPass, find it simple and easy to use and I don't have to remember anything apart from my LastPass password. It even generates random passwords so I don't have think about those either.

Each to their own. If I was to use one it would be Keepass since its opensource software which to my mind makes it more trustworthy.

buglawton

The last full version of Roboform that was still Freeware is at http://www.oldversion.com/download_RoboForm_4.6.8.html -unlimited passwords.

(I checked and it is exactly the same number of bytes in size as the one I downloaded years ago)

...seems to work OK with IE7 but with IE8, who knows? Anyone with feedback pls post here too!

buglawton

Addendum: Upgraded a computer to IE8 recently and Roboform 4.6.8 - free with unlimited passwords - is working nicely with it.

viv0147

1password is brilliant take a look

buglawton

1password - for Apple only? Also, looks like it is one of those that wants to keep your passwords online somewhere - not an option I like personally. What did you pay for 1password anyway viv? it appears to be a paid for app, or is the shareware version of some use?