Posts Tagged ‘master password’

Keepass free password manager

If you’re like me you probably have many accounts online which require a user name and a password. The easy thing to do would be to use the same user name/password for all your login’s, but it is certainly not the best thing to do. Can you trust all the sites you are using ?  Are the passwords encrypted ? So the most secure option is to use different user name/passwords for all your accounts. For the account you use daily you probably won’t have a problem remembering your login details, but what about that site you use once a month ? Time to keep a list of your passwords and user names.

KeePass is a lightweight, easy to use, open source password manager. It allows you to build an encrypted database with all your passwords and protect it with a master password or a key file.

http://keepass.info/index.html

Simple Password

What is Simple Password ? Simple enough really. Rather than having to remember / write down a different password for every site you visit, Simple Password allows you to remember a single password ( they call it the master password ). You can then use this one master password to generate a different password for every site you visit.

A different password for each website?

Yep. Ask yourself what would happen if someone found out your email address and password on any given site you use. If you only used that password once, then you only have one site to worry about. But if you’ve used the same password for your email / amazon / paypal / bank then you could end up with a real catastrophe on your hands.

Sounds sensible

It is, the problem comes with the sheer number of websites we use these days. Thinking up and, more importantly, remembering a different password for each of these quickly gets out of hand. So much so that people either resort to tools to help them track all the different passwords, or give up and start using a common password.

Simple Password can help with that?

Pick one single master password and commit it to memory. Then every time you need a password for a site, use this site to combine your master password and the site URL into a unique password for that site. The same master password will give you a different password for each site.

And if I forget my password?

Come back to Simple Password, using the same master password and same URL will always generate the same password.

http://www.simplepassword.com/