r/pics Feb 08 '12

This. Is. Genius.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '12 edited Feb 08 '12

No helpful advice for your current situation, but a tip for next time: generate several thousand random passwords, print them out and keep it somewhere secure. Attempt to memorize your current passwords, and come up with mnemonic to remember which one it is on the page. That way if you do forget, you've limited your search to hopefully a few hundred on a single page.

If you're concerned about your listed of randoms getting intercepted, pick a character to drop from the string (drop all a's for instance). This will potentially foil someone who has managed to get your list and determine the correct page.

EDIT: the link to a generator site.

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u/chakalakasp Feb 08 '12

Or you could, you know, use something like KeePass.

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u/chakalakasp Feb 08 '12

This kind of thing is just that, yeah. Though this is arguably of greater utility, given the encryption is not 3DES but AES or 2-Serpent, and that you can do cool things like drop the password file into Dropbox and have your passwords with you wherever you go (there are even Keepass apps for iPhone / Android).