Password Safe

[pne]

I've recently started using Password Safe (originally by Bruce Schneier) to keep track of some of my passwords… and also to generate some new passwords.

Part of what triggered this was seeing that somebody had scribbled in my Blurty (two entries which I've since deleted).

Having the same password in multiple places is convenient but insecure; choosing different passwords for lots of places is hard to remember. Password Safe makes it easier by generating random passwords for new places and remembering them in one place.

The disadvantage is that I need to have Password Safe around (and keep it synchronised between home and work), or else I have no hope of remembering the passwords.

Thankfully, it seems that there's a version out for Pocket PC… the project page says it needs Pocket PC 2000, but perhaps it'll also work with what I have (3.0?). So then I can carry the passwords around with me.

Have to see how things work out in practice.

Comments

[uon.livejournal.com]

Have to see how things work out in practice.

I've been using STRIP (http://www.zetetic.net/products.html) on my Palm for the last couple of years: it's been very useful for remembering passwords for machines or sites I hardly ever log in to, and also for keeping other details handy.
It's particularly good for the situation where you move into a new office and suddenly have to remember > (7±2) access and alarm codes, all of which are numeric and none of which are changeable.

STRIP

[pne.livejournal.com]

Sounds good, but I don't have a Palm machine.

I'll have to see whether Password Safe works on my PDA and whether it'll be similarly useful to what you describe.