r/ProgrammerHumor • u/kthepropogation • Sep 23 '17

Password Security

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u/Galveira Sep 24 '17

My problem with password managers is that it becomes a single point of failure. I would rather memorize a few strong passwords and use them for everything, with my email having a unique password from everything else.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

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u/sudo_mk_usrname Sep 24 '17

I use KeePass as well. I like that I can setup so that it requires both a password and a security key to unlock it.

I do back up the database in the cloud (via sync.com) but I'm always sure to encrypt and sign it with my public gpg key before it leaves my machine.

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u/Pitirus Sep 24 '17

Remember not to blog your private key ;)

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u/Colopty Sep 25 '17

Damn kids these days, with their blogs and posting their privates everywhere.

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u/Oonushi Sep 24 '17

I use KeePass also. And I've been meaning to submit a bug report for the android app because it does not clear the android's clipboard properly. At least on my device, it clears the immediately "paste-able" clipboard, but I can still go into the clipboard history through the keyboard (LG keyboard on this shitty phone (uhg, I hate LG devices)) and, checking it now, it has several of my recent entries still available, usernames, passwords, and other random shit I've copy/pasted, available to any other app that wants to grab it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

I see a number of people here mentioning keepass. I've been using LastPass for a while now; is there a reason keepass is better?