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Stop using bad passwords. Start using Vault.

6 pointsby adambomalmost 12 years ago

3 comments

jlgaddisalmost 12 years ago
A couple of things:<p>1. add an &quot;avoid ambiguous characters&quot; option (is that an &quot;l&quot; or a &quot;1&quot;, an &quot;O&quot; or an &quot;0&quot;, etc.).<p>2. encouraging people to type or generate passwords into&#x2F;from random web sites is a bad idea -- perhaps even making the problem worse instead of solving it.<p>3. who&#x27;s your target audience? The tech community already understands this. Is it my mother, the average user? She&#x27;d use this exactly once and then forget it. Why? &quot;getvau.lt&quot;. While that&#x27;s &quot;cute&quot; and us techies love crap like that, all Joe User knows is .com. When he tries to come back to the site tomorrow, he&#x27;ll type in &quot;getvault.com&quot; or (more likely) &quot;get vault&quot; or &quot;getvault&quot;, end up somewhere else, and never use your service again.<p>HTH.
cmwelshalmost 12 years ago
KeyPassX and MiniKeyPass are working well enough here, plus they are open source software that one can install on his or her computer or iPhone.<p>I keep my database on Dropbox for availability on multiple devices.
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roywigginsalmost 12 years ago
Neat, but SuperGenPass does this better- has a bookmarklet with configurable salt, and it&#x27;s based off the domain name, not the service, so you can&#x27;t get into ambiguities (Gmail, GMail, gmail?)<p><a href="http://supergenpass.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;supergenpass.com&#x2F;</a><p>That said, the options for disallowed characters is nice.
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