Help with spelling is apparently needed, too.
I just use NotePad text files (hundreds of them), stored in an external drive folder and several flashdrives. If you find a good app, share it, please!
Since virtually all passwords these days require a combination of letters/numbers/characters, an easy mnemonic are aircraft names, i.e. P-47Thunderbolt, B-26Marauder, etc.
Concur with KeePass. You can set it up to integrate with Pale Moon. And it is free. Also a version that runs off a USB stick.
I tried one of those do-all password keepers. It messed up my hard drive because it inserted itself in every possible program.
I returned to the old standby standalone Password Keeper. It is an old program that came with an MCI computer. The program is no longer supported, but it can be found one some old archival websites.
For browsing, I use the browser password keepers. They work pretty well.
As for android — I am looking forward to responses in this thread.
I use Keeper which is encrypted. It works well for me because I not only have all the usual passwords and user names but I have at least a dozen at work.
I am sure other programs work as well or better...this one works well on my android phone.
The author wants an electronic device, with a doo-dad program, to control the passwords of all his electronic places????
Suggestion: go to Jane’s Aircraft systems book, any year. Pick a system, be it avionics, hydraulics, mechanical. Choose the complete alpha-numeric number, with parentheses, and make it THE password, minus the parentheses. THEN, use a (+1), (+2), (+3), etc, in the order of importance, to the author!
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Just get an old school address book, and enter the webpages by name and passwords.
Remember:
1.a pen and ink book, you might lose, if you have butter fingers, but it can never be hacked.
2. If it’s electronic, it can be hacked!
Whoever wants you already has you.
You might try something like:
one_basic_pwd_fr for “FreeRepublic,”
one_basic_pwd_mybank for your bank,
one_basic_pwd_work for your workplace,
etc.
http://thesurvivalmom.com/foolproof-passwords/
I didn’t write this but the suggestion for using an old nursery rhyme is a good one.
I have an old app called Access Manager.
It is a pass-worded app that allows for easy access to all my user names and passwords.
Mine is over 10 years old, but a quick search shows a possible similar free one: http://www.accessmanager.co.uk/
After many many years I settled on using an excel spreadsheet that requires a password to open it.
The reason is that it’s not just ‘username’ and ‘password’ you need ... there are pins, sometimes security questions which don’t fit your life, other ancillary data.
A couple years ago I moved the password encryped excel spreadsheet to a Google Docs spreadsheet (Google’s version of Excel) - that way I can grab it from a phone, ipad, computer, even someone else’s computer or phone in a pinch. (Google Docs is https - secure http)
This is the only method I know that covers all situations.
(it’s also handy for storing shopping lists, especially for measurements of things around the house for when you go to Home Depot because you can pull it up on your mobile phone at the store when you’re looking at 700 different sizes.)
Also, you can pick a base password that contains most or all of the required characters like “M0t0rBo4t” or something -> and then append 01, 02, 03 for those that you have to change every 90 days - like your windows network password at work.
The password programs like KeePass and LastPass are good sometimes, but they can be simplistic, and if you leave your computer open while you have those programs autosuggesting passwords, it’s going to suggest that password where the person goes.
With an excel file (password protected,) or Google Docs to access it anywhere, at least you have a single, flexible, place, available from any device, secure http, to get this information.
Could Google steal your file? If someone wants your passwords, they’ve got ‘em already. That’s a chance I’m willing to take, and any app that gives you your passwords on demand anywhere ... means they are stored in the cloud anyway.
That said ... if anyone knows a better solution that offers everything I listed ... I’ll change to anything that works long term. So far, I’ve been doing this for 6 years ... tried all the other solutions during those 6 years.
The key, if you have 10 - 20 passwords (and usernames) is to settle on a scheme that no one is going to guess (animal names using numbers for letters like “M0ng00s3” is popular.
Otherwise you wind up writing all your disparate passwords on stickies near where they’re used, which I’ve seen even some IT people do, or, each month, you think of a new neat scheme, and by the end of the year, you’ve got 6 schemes and you can’t remember which you used for that password.
Good luck. I only write a lot because it’s been a long journey to finding something that works. Hope some o that helps.
I put all of mine on sticky notes under my monitor. Works great.
I have DropBox running on my Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android (phone) machines.
I then installed 1.X database compatible versions of KeePass on all of these computers. I later tried 2.X database compatible versions, but the Mac version ran too slow, so I went back to 1.X.
Anyway, I store the KeePass database in a folder within Dropbox. I’ve then configured all of my copies of KeePass to use this database. KeePass prevents more than one copy of writing to the same database, and DropBox takes care of keeping all of them synced.
It’s not perfect, but it works.
It is handy to have these things on the road & not just at home.
WINDOWS: Please enter your new password:
USER: “cabbage”
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.
USER: “boiled cabbage”
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.
USER: “1 boiled cabbage”
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.
USER: “50bloodyboiledcabbages”
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character.
USER: “50BLOODYboiledcabbages”
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively.
USER: “50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourA**IfYouDon’tGiveMeAccessNow!”
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.
USER: “ReallyPissedOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourA**IfYouDontGiveMeAccessNow”
WINDOWS: Sorry, that password is already in use.