| Re: Most secure way to reset a password via email link [message #185172 is a reply to message #185171] |
Thu, 06 March 2014 02:38   |
Geoff Muldoon
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Registered: July 2011
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In article <lf8h7j$nas$1(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net>, tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid says...
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> On 06/03/14 00:30, Geoff Muldoon wrote:
>> tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid says...
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>>> On 05/03/14 23:51, Richard Yates wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:26:21 -0700, Chuck Anderson
>>>> > I think this kind of thing (and requirements on password strength)
>>>> > create a security problem of their own by forcing people to record this
>>>> > information somewhere and then keep it handy.
>>>>
>>>> Yes!!! The standard recommendations to users about passwords are
>>>> simply contradictory or impossible to follow. Based on my brief
>>>> experience dealing with others' passwords I believe that, with a few
>>>> exceptions, everybody either writes them down or uses the same one in
>>>> multiple places.
>>>>
>>>> Personally I confess that I do both.
>>>>
>>>> There's gotta be a better way.
>>>>
>>> have a file full of passwords and encrypt THAT with a secret key
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>> http://keepass.info/
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> Assuming you are daft enough to run windows..
"Note that KeePass 2.x runs under Linux / Mac OS X, too; see Running
KeePass under Mono."
RTFM
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