[Discuss] Password app

Mike Small smallm at panix.com
Fri Oct 10 13:08:27 EDT 2014


Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> writes:
>
> Because you don't have to keep a that "password database file" on 5
> different backup devices (and keep it updated on all your backup
> copies every time you add one).  It's certainly not a security
> improvement. It's a usability improvement at the expense of security.
>

What happens when you need to change a site's password? You use a new
master pass phrase. Now you either have to go change all your passwords
on each site or keep track of which were generated from the old and
which the new master passphrases. Is that not how it would work?


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Mike Small
smallm at panix.com



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