Barron

sorry if its been on before but i tried to do a search and the screen wouldn't come up,
what do you do to store your passwords, is there a programme to do this, how do you do it?
cheers Paul

P1Fanatic

Pen and paper with various characters missing. I wouldnt leave passwords on a computer at all if you can help it.

Simon.

philgr

in my head

Neil Smalley

Same here, in my head. I tend to use song lyrics but replace some characters with 1 or o. I've also been known to use latin.

Basically anything non english.

Markus

keep them in my head, tis the safest place

P1Fanatic

You guys either dont have many usernames & passwords or you use the same one. I think I have about 30 diff logins.

Simon.

Nick1

Ipaq and have a password to keep them safe

John Catlin

In my head, onlyproblem is that once you crack one you know the lot !!!!!!

stevencotton

I have about 20-25 non-sequential usernames and passwords in my head. I use mnemonics to remember so "**** was nice. Her face wasn't!" may help me remember "4wn.Hfw!"

snowcrash

i have 30 odd passwords in my head :P

IWatkins

Can't remember my own phone number but do have approx 25 - 30 username/password combos in my head.

A few others are generated from a one time cypher system, but you need a passwrd to access that.

Cheers

Ian

R1916v

Yup I use the most powerful computer on earth to store them, me noggin.

I have no idea how many systems I have passwords/usernames for at work, must be nearing 50!

Barron

i must admit i was expecting a higher tec answer,
i already use pen and paper but as it seems i get more and more passwords to remember i thought there would be a computer solution.

this reminds me of the NASA story, they spend tons of cash to develop a space pen and the russians just used a pencil

ids

I think wat you are asking for is useful apps to store them in.

Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/ or http://www.cygnusproductions.com/ for a couple of useful tools.

Remember however - they are both only as good as the passphrase you use as the key to encrpt the data. Make it a long password with mixed case, charecters, numbers and possibly with un-printable charecters.

Ids