[ale] How do you store your passwords?

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Sun Nov 11 06:34:34 EST 2007


James Sumners wrote:

>I don't know. I've never used GPG. I was just answering the "how do I
>use it on multiple platforms with a USB key?" question.
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>If you're going to store your passwords in a text file then you should
>encrypt the file. Particularly if you are going to store it on a USB
>key.
>
>On 11/9/07, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
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>>this is like building a new Fort Knox to store my local passwords...
>>but seriously is this all command-line STUFF to encrypt/decrypt a file with
>>passwords, using your private gpg key?? man gpg doesn't give my much of a
>>hint on this..
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Check out bcrypt http://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/.  It's pretty easy to 
use, is available on Linux and Windows and perhaps more.

Jim.



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