All passwords. storage methods.

in #life8 years ago

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."/>

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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.

To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize