[conspire] storing passwords

[Rich Bodo]

Love that password manager, Don!  I was just looking for a new one and this
thread popped up.

Somewhat related, I have been working with windows users who are, as of
late, much more concerned with the security of their documents.  If had to
go back and try a whole bunch of password DBs and encryption programs on
windows to find things that were simple enough to work for them.

Here is what I came up with.  If you have to teach windows users to use
encryption, you could do worse than starting with these:

http://richbodo.pbworks.com/w/page/117218100/Simple%20Encryption%20Programs

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:

> begin Rick Moen quotation of Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:44:02AM -0700:
> > Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):
> >
> > > I totally understand the need to have different passwords for
> different accounts.  I also seem to have a limit on the number of brain
> cells for this.
> >
> > This is a wise and astute comment.  The biggest problem with passwords
> > is that we need to create, reliably remember, and occasionally change
> > quite a lot of them, that any compromosing of password complexity
> > or duplication makes them a lot weaker, and that the human brain simply
> > can't do all that.
>
> Things that people are really bad at: remembering
> strings of high-entropy text.
>
> Thing that most web site security depends on: making
> users remember strings of high-entropy text.
>
> I use "pass" which I can sync among devices without
> trusting the server too much:
>
>   https://www.passwordstore.org/
>
> You do have to have GPG working first (and it helps
> to know git), but once you have that it's pretty
> straightforward.
>
> protip: if you want to keep people who do web
> development from trusting their data to your web
> site, disallow passowrds containg quotation marks,
> percent signs,  or semicolons.
>
> --
> Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org>
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