How do you manage your passwords

[CJ MAC OSX IPOD]

I use my brain to manage my password.... Well I use keychain. (if thats what you mean)

Originally Posted by pds

I wonder if what I do is safe enough. I have very difficult random passwords and copy them to Word. I set the font color to white and then zoom the screen a little. Then I drag them to the desktop and they become picture clippings. I change the name to something innocuous but that tips me off to what they are. If I open them, I only see random dots.

I keep them in an encrypted disk image although the image password is in keychain, so it opens straight away.

When I need them, I open the disk image and drag them to the correct field. I usually close the image immediately.

I don't have to worry about this in a corporate environment, it is my home and school solution.

I figure it works to avoid keyloggers or other types of snooping while on-line, but maybe my security is just based on stupidity.

So you store your passwords as images in an encrypted disk image?
... no offense but that is pretty stupid

Try making a very big word document with lots of text such as: Shakespeare and put loads of different .txt files in a folder called 'Shakespeare' and have one with passwords in white text somewere random in one of the storys. realy who is going to look in every file?

[polltullach]

I just signed up with PV based on what I read on this thread.
Now the questions arise (and it may be naive); What guarantee do i have that PasswordVault does not have access to all my passwords? And how do I know who they are? Sorry!

[g/re/p]

Originally Posted by CJ MAC OSX IPOD

So you store your passwords as images in an encrypted disk image?
... no offense but that is pretty stupid

actually, it's damned clever!

Originally Posted by CJ MAC OSX IPOD

Try making a very big word document with lots of text such as: Shakespeare and put loads of different .txt files in a folder called 'Shakespeare' and have one with passwords in white text somewere random in one of the storys. realy who is going to look in every file?

That is totally ridiculous (and stupid??) - and insecure as hell.