Password Manager

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Apr 2012 at 14:33

Azza said:
KeePass

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Admiral Huddy · 13 Apr 2012 at 14:40

I use Keepass too but it's never in the right place when i need it and I'm sceptical about on line password managers.

SoAdCrAzY · 13 Apr 2012 at 14:45

Azza said:

By the way, this is the best thing ever.

Uhtred · 13 Apr 2012 at 15:03

Admiral Huddy said:
I use Keepass too but it's never in the right place when i need it and I'm sceptical about on line password managers.

Although there are risks, which I understand, it does work well with dropbox.

Azza · 13 Apr 2012 at 15:55

Admiral Huddy said:
I use Keepass too but it's never in the right place when i need it and I'm sceptical about on line password managers.

What do you mean it's never in the right place?

Ev0 · 13 Apr 2012 at 16:31

desires said:
I know that modem encryption simply relies on using big numbers that take a long time to factorize, but as computers get faster the numbers become easier and easier to factorize. Government facilities and their super computers are very good at factorizing large numbers. Our intelligence services would be pretty useless if a simple 256 encryption made everything watertight.

The factoring of large prime numbers is used in asymmetric encryption such as the RSA algorithm.

It's unlikely that asymmetric encryption is used by software in this instance.

Encryption such as AES does not work in this way.

m4cc45 said:
Some of the encryption is 8192 bit as well.

Again generally asymmetric algorithms use these large key lengths, most symmetric encryption uses lower key lengths such as 256.

Doesn't make them any less secure, it's just a different method of encryption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Asymmetric_algorithm_key_lengths

The maths behind these algorithms is usually sound but it's how they are implemented which can let them down if done poorly

Saying that I still probably wouldn't want my encrypted password file going off anywhere else

Admiral Huddy · 13 Apr 2012 at 16:52

Azza said:
What do you mean it's never in the right place?

Well i keep it on my laptop.. which is always at home when I need it.

I've thought about keeping the file in Sky-drive and downloading when and where necessary.

Azza · 14 Apr 2012 at 01:24

Admiral Huddy said:
Well i keep it on my laptop.. which is always at home when I need it.

I've thought about keeping the file in Sky-drive and downloading when and where necessary.

SkyDrive?
DropBox?
Your phone? There's apps for WP7, IOS and Android.
Portable KeePass on a flash drive?

m4cc45 · 14 Apr 2012 at 10:57

If you don't have an up to date phone, then as Azza suggested, a portable USB stick is a great solution as you can encrypt the stick as well (with a different password) then, should you loose it, you have a two-factor solution.

Testing Sticky Password at the moment and you have to manually export the databbase then sync it with your phone (again manually) so you have nothing in the cloud - which is just what I wanted.

M.

KIA · 14 Apr 2012 at 14:30

Admiral Huddy said:
Well i keep it on my laptop.. which is always at home when I need it.

I've thought about keeping the file in Sky-drive and downloading when and where necessary.

Use Dropbox to sync the database. Make sure you enable key support. The key file must never touch dropbox.