All passwords. storage methods.
Passwords from each site must be different to each other. You do not need to put in
as a password your date of birth, your favorite color, film, mobile phone, etc. and
etc. - All easily selected. Also, do not use the qwerty type passwords, 123456,
12345678, qweasd any light passwords, which can be a few sbrutit
minutes. The safest password according to experts - is the password consisting of 16
symbols. Basically, when registering on websites and forums are asked to enter the password from
6 to 20 symbols. 16 characters - the best password! The password is used
uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols as possible. Example
secure password of 16 characters: WPXjVu {pUY {I + AOX. All passwords are better
write down. Now we talk about how to store passwords.
Many people store passwords in browsers, which absolutely can not do !!! at
Trojan first contact (for example, the same UFR) - leave your passwords
attackers. There are people who store passwords in text files on
computer and open them through the notebook. This option is also not safe. Yes there is
an option to fill in passwords in a text file on a flash drive, but this option is not secure.
How to be then? Everything is very simple. We will use soft KeePassX.
KeePassX - is free software for storing passwords that
distributed free of charge on the basis of the GPL. Software is open source
code. Therein it differs.
Software is required to download from the official site! Do not swing the software from torrents and
vareznikov - in software can be sewn into a Trojan!
Download Link: http://www.keepassx.org/downloads
On the download page, select the archive for Windows. Download it!
Another advantage of this software - it does not require installation of software and portable (you can
run on any PC without installation steps). Software has a nice interface.
Unpack the archive and run. After the launch, we need to create a password database
(When the database is created we'll just open it).
Click the new database:
When you create a database prompts to create a password or key file. File-key safer
It will be, but it can be lost, so we will focus on password protection.
Enter the password that we will remember (not the year of your birth!). "Then click OK and enter the key again. Now we can work with passwords his. Adding all the most necessary and valuable and reserve base (a must!). "File - Save as a password database ..." Enter the name of the database and store it in a safe place and then write on the stick! Base just takes a few kilobytes and securely encrypted by AES. You can open the password database on any computer where the software KeePassX (write better to stick it). When you open the database prompts for the password database, enter the password and work with passwords database."/>
No discussions on passwords are complete without a reference to https://xkcd.com/936/ ... as far as I can see, 16-character passwords with as many obscure characters as possible is not considered best practice according to Randall.