• kevincox@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Drop “memorable”. 99.9% of your passwords should be managed by your password manager and don’t need to be memorized. On one or two passwords that you actually need to type (like your computer login) need to be memorable.

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      1 year ago

      99.9% of your passwords should be managed by your password manager

      this looks like a sensible approach until you remember password managers can be cracked, too. I’m with GP on this, a passphrase is easier to remember and is good enough for most use cases, if you need more security you should be using some form or another of 2FA anyway

      • dan@upvote.au
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        1 year ago

        I’ve got 1601 logins and 86 secure notes in my Bitwarden vault… no way I’m memorizing all of that lol

      • Gamma@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        I have 350 items in my BW vault. I am not memorizing that many passwords, I’d rather use my brain for something else.

      • Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi
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        1 year ago

        I’ve been using keepassxc for a while now and it’s better than most other options, everything is stored locally and encrypted behind a master password.

        All you micht want to do is make a backup of your vault onto an external drive (best practice would be encrypted via the options you have, I use luks because I’m a Linux nerd).

        • livendie@beehaw.org
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          Agreed. Have my password database backed up over multiple places, GPG encrypted of-coarse, you can never be too safe.