Well, I was hoping to make a more interesting post today, but seem to have lost the route through my cluttered mind to get to the synapses that store my github private key passphrase. So, in an attempt to keep up the quantity if not the quality of my blogging, let me turn to this dire state of mnemonic affairs. I can’t remember my passwords very well anymore. I’ve always been leery of password storage utilities, but I think I need to rethink them. I keep my machines with full disk encryption, and commit those passwords well into my memory, so I should be somewhat secure, right? Talk me in to this, dear readers, or tell me the path of folly I am embarking upon.
Are Password Lockers Safe?
28 Thursday Jul 2011
Posted in computer science
Password Lockers/Safes seem to be the only solution that really scales at the moment. Password reuse is an unsolvable problem and asking people to remember umpteen passwords is unreasonable. Look around and see what has had some peer review as opposed to “Bob’s password storage program”.
If you are already employing a proven full disk crypto solution you are probably pretty safe.
My 2c.