What's Your Favourite Password Manager?

[DimasRMDO]

I'm just wondering, I personally use KeePass, how about you guys?

Can you guys state your reason as well for choosing the software?

I'm a bit obsessed with open-source stuff, besides I don't really like the idea of storing stuff online where syncing is a thing. I like to keep my passwords offline, well KeePass' got lots of plugins as well which might be useful someday.

[Billy_Mays]

Pinky Squishy thing

[NinJake]

I dont use password managers.

 

I have tested Keepass at work and it does work. I've just never been a fan of giving my passwords to something else other than what the password is actually used for.

[Princess Luna]

My brain.

[Billy_Mays]

11 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

My brain.

No a pink squishy

[KenjiUmino]

my favorite "password manager" ?

 

an encrypted .ods file

[Alterlai]

1 hour ago, NinJake said:

I dont use password managers.

 

I have tested Keepass at work and it does work. I've just never been a fan of giving my passwords to something else other than what the password is actually used for.

In the case of Keepass, you're not "giving" them your password. It's simply a password used to decrypt the database. If you're worried about security, using a password manager is acutally a good practice.

[NinJake]

18 minutes ago, Alterlai said:

In the case of Keepass, you're not "giving" them your password. It's simply a password used to decrypt the database. If you're worried about security, using a password manager is acutally a good practice.

But it's stored locally. I haven't messed with let's say keeping it on Google Drive but the moment you lose that local database, you lose ALL passwords. If you rely on a password manager for your passwords, you're out of luck at that point. I know they are a good practice, but not necessarily "best" practice of security.

 

By keeping my passwords in my head I have peace of mind, until I go into a coma and wake up with no memories! I guess at that point I wouldn't even know what websites to go to lol.

[Alterlai]

Just now, NinJake said:

But it's stored locally. I haven't messed with let's say keeping it on Google Drive but the moment you lose that local database, you lose ALL passwords. If you rely on a password manager for your passwords, you're out of luck at that point. I know they are a good practice, but not necessarily "best" practice of security.

 

By keeping my passwords in my head I have peace of mind, until I go into a coma and wake up with no memories! I guess at that point I wouldn't even know what websites to go to lol.

You can store it in the cloud for synchronization across devices.

 

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but the moment you lose that local database, you lose ALL passwords.

You can backup the database periodically.

 

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By keeping my passwords in my head I have peace of mind

The thing about remembering passwords is that people choose passwords that are either insufficient in complexity, or re-use passwords in mulitple locations. This also creates a single point of failure. It would be impossible to have a unique and strong password on every single site and be able to remember all of them.

[noahdvs]

10 hours ago, NinJake said:

But it's stored locally. I haven't messed with let's say keeping it on Google Drive but the moment you lose that local database, you lose ALL passwords. If you rely on a password manager for your passwords, you're out of luck at that point. I know they are a good practice, but not necessarily "best" practice of security.

 

By keeping my passwords in my head I have peace of mind, until I go into a coma and wake up with no memories! I guess at that point I wouldn't even know what websites to go to lol.

Password managers allow you to use very long, complex and unique passwords for every site you use easily, unlike your memory. How many long, unique and complex passwords can you hold in your head? You might have some good passwords that you reuse. It may be difficult to brute force those accounts, but if just one of the sites leaks your email and password, people can try those credentials on popular websites and get access to other accounts that weren't even leaked. It's a lot easier to make sure a single file and a single master password is never lost than it is to remember many passwords. I doubt you'd find many security experts that recommend memorizing every password over using a password manager.

[DimasRMDO]

On 07/07/2017 at 0:56 AM, NinJake said:

But it's stored locally. I haven't messed with let's say keeping it on Google Drive but the moment you lose that local database, you lose ALL passwords. If you rely on a password manager for your passwords, you're out of luck at that point. I know they are a good practice, but not necessarily "best" practice of security.

 

By keeping my passwords in my head I have peace of mind, until I go into a coma and wake up with no memories! I guess at that point I wouldn't even know what websites to go to lol.

Me personally, for the master password I wrote it on a piece of paper, just in case if I forget the password.

[Brianyu]

Personally, i used intel's truekey. I thought it was great, until i got bored of having it go all weird and not log on to my site when i want it to. i went back to using the ol' brain method, remembering 1 master password and adding things to each, for a example, one of my passwords could be "HydYenDkeEni#8394******* " . The stars can be something like GmaiL1 if it was gmail, or Fac3book0 if it was facebook. The password would be changed alot too.

[Tsuki]

i use notepad

[DimasRMDO]

5 hours ago, Tsuki said:

i use notepad

So you put all your passwords in notepad and store it somewhere deep in your PC?

7 hours ago, Brianyu said:

Personally, i used intel's truekey. I thought it was great, until i got bored of having it go all weird and not log on to my site when i want it to. i went back to using the ol' brain method, remembering 1 master password and adding things to each, for a example, one of my passwords could be "HydYenDkeEni#8394******* " . The stars can be something like GmaiL1 if it was gmail, or Fac3book0 if it was facebook. The password would be changed alot too.

I haven't heard of it, just checked it and it seems complicated.... I might stick with my current password manager.

My memory can be short sometimes, when I have different password for every account, problems start to arise.

[Brianyu]

8 hours ago, Tsuki said:

i use notepad

wha- what?!!? Oh, well i guess if you have like a pc that will never again be connected to the internet you could store them there, but i feel like paper does the same thing, and its, errr- more secure. i mean, even if the file is encrypted, keyloggers ans screen recording malware exists.

2 hours ago, DimasRMDO said:

I haven't heard of it, just checked it and it seems complicated.... I might stick with my current password manager.

My memory can be short sometimes, when I have different password for every account, problems start to arise.

Yea, it was either stare into your computer's camera or use a fingerprint. something something biometric data is safer then a password.

[Tsuki]

On 7/8/2017 at 5:42 AM, DimasRMDO said:

So you put all your passwords in notepad and store it somewhere deep in your PC?

 

 

On 7/8/2017 at 8:38 AM, Brianyu said:

wha- what?!!? Oh, well i guess if you have like a pc that will never again be connected to the internet you could store them there, but i feel like paper does the same thing, and its, errr- more secure. i mean, even if the file is encrypted, keyloggers ans screen recording malware exists.

 

oh trust me, i know its terribly stupid. i just dont care lol  i keep it on a flash drive in my desk.

and theres no accounts that actually have any priviledged information on it. and all my passwords for everything are unique, so nobody will be able to use any of those to get other passwords.

[DimasRMDO]

On 11/07/2017 at 7:13 AM, Tsuki said:

 

oh trust me, i know its terribly stupid. i just dont care lol  i keep it on a flash drive in my desk.

and theres no accounts that actually have any priviledged information on it. and all my passwords for everything are unique, so nobody will be able to use any of those to get other passwords.

I see  well, I'd at least zip the folder and password protect it.