[Translation] Password Managers and Post-it Notes
Half past eleven, thursday. You urgently need access to the site in order to finally complete a serious project you are working on. You should have been sleeping for a long time, but you need to finish the work by 9 am, and then it turns out that you have forgotten the password from the site.
You are angry, grab the keyboard to run it into the monitor and shout something unprintable. And here you notice a yellow piece of paper glued to the keyboard on the back side. You are relieved to remember that you pasted this piece of paper with a password written on it.
Upon closer examination, it turns out that this is a note from the information security service: “We know that remembering many passwords is difficult, but please do not do this anymore. We discussed this issue with your department a month ago. Your Sat ;-)
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Anger and shame embrace you. Shame wins, bringing the simple idea that you might take care of a password earlier. On a yellow piece of paper you read PS: “call support to reset the password and use the password manager if you forget them all the time.”
Pony, right? Well, of course! Will you continue to write passwords on pieces of paper? I do not think.
Password managers, if you have not met yet, are applications created to store your accounts to various resources in a secure manner. At the same time you need to remember only one password - to launch such an application, and not more than 200, as it usually happens with modern active users.
The first on my list is the password keeper from the guys from AgileBits, called 1Password.
The application allows you to store any type of password and is relatively easy to integrate with web forms. substitutes login / password automatically, for you. Most of all I like the ability to synchronize the database with passwords between different devices. The application 1Password is not free, but it makes your life much easier and worth the money.
Another interesting and free (!) Application for storing passwords is called Keepass.
From Keepass:
KeePass is licensed under the open source license and is free of charge. The password database is encrypted using a file containing a key or password using modern AES or Twofish algorithms.
The third in our today's review will be the LastPass application.
From Lastpass:
LastPass has versions for installation, on almost all modern platforms, and is also present as an extension to many browsers. Synchronization between devices is performed automatically, so you will always have the actual passwords on any of the devices. The application for Windows or MacOS is free, but mobile customers require LastPass Premium, the price is $ 1 per month.
Lyrics by: Dave Lewis
Original material
You are angry, grab the keyboard to run it into the monitor and shout something unprintable. And here you notice a yellow piece of paper glued to the keyboard on the back side. You are relieved to remember that you pasted this piece of paper with a password written on it.
Upon closer examination, it turns out that this is a note from the information security service: “We know that remembering many passwords is difficult, but please do not do this anymore. We discussed this issue with your department a month ago. Your Sat ;-)
')
Anger and shame embrace you. Shame wins, bringing the simple idea that you might take care of a password earlier. On a yellow piece of paper you read PS: “call support to reset the password and use the password manager if you forget them all the time.”
Pony, right? Well, of course! Will you continue to write passwords on pieces of paper? I do not think.
Password managers, if you have not met yet, are applications created to store your accounts to various resources in a secure manner. At the same time you need to remember only one password - to launch such an application, and not more than 200, as it usually happens with modern active users.
So let's give examples of such applications.
The first on my list is the password keeper from the guys from AgileBits, called 1Password.
The application allows you to store any type of password and is relatively easy to integrate with web forms. substitutes login / password automatically, for you. Most of all I like the ability to synchronize the database with passwords between different devices. The application 1Password is not free, but it makes your life much easier and worth the money.
Another interesting and free (!) Application for storing passwords is called Keepass.
From Keepass:
KeePass is licensed under the open source license and is free of charge. The password database is encrypted using a file containing a key or password using modern AES or Twofish algorithms.
The third in our today's review will be the LastPass application.
From Lastpass:
LastPass has versions for installation, on almost all modern platforms, and is also present as an extension to many browsers. Synchronization between devices is performed automatically, so you will always have the actual passwords on any of the devices. The application for Windows or MacOS is free, but mobile customers require LastPass Premium, the price is $ 1 per month.
Lyrics by: Dave Lewis
Original material
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/212257/
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