Password safes &c.

Fri Jun 8 21:10:49 UTC 2012

In my case I rely on Password Safe 
(http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/), Password Gorilla 
(https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki/) and Dropbox.

PasswordSafe has android and windows clients.  The windows client will 
work under wine on linux if you really want, but it's a bit of a pain.
Password Gorilla is a TCL app that is cross-platform that reads 
PasswordSafe files.  There are a number of iPhone clients for 
passwordsafe mentioned on the Password Gorilla page linked above.
Dropbox keeps the safe sync'd between locations (including phone).

In each of them adding, fetching or changing a password is simple and 
involves only a few clicks.  I've got somewhere approaching 200+ 
passwords in mine.

On 06/08/2012 11:00 AM, Tyler Haske wrote:
> KeePass, KeyPassDroid and Dropbox.
>
> I'm sure it will just get simpler as time goes on.
>
> My mom uses a key database just fine.
> On Jun 8, 2012 4:49 PM, "Andrew Sullivan"<asullivan at dyn.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 01:30:42PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
>>> PS: when security is hard, people simply don't do it.
>> I think this is exactly right.
>>
>> The idea that we are going to train everyone on earth to keep eleventy
>> billion distinct passwords in their heads -- or in a "password safe"
>> that is either (1) under someone else's control because it's a web
>> service or (2) inaccessible half the time because it's on their laptop
>> and they're using their phone now and OMG -- is preposterous.  (This
>> without mentioning that they also have to remember the username that
>> goes with it, which is _also_ variable.)