[Discuss] Password managers

[Jack Bennett]

One of the benefits of a password manager is that it automates this process
so you can easily use passwords that would be impossible to remember and/or
type in (and lock them behind a suitable and memorable passphrase).

Of course, this still requires trusting the creators of the manager
application itself.

1Password and LastPass have what appear to be good external security audit
processes, so they've got that going for them

e.g. https://support.1password.com/security-assessments/

I don't expect that I would be able to cook up a better DIY solution that
is anywhere near as convenient.



On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:35 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 May 2020 13:05:58 -0400
> Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
>
> > Except 16+ is overkill for a password. (*Password*, not encryption
> > passphrase--the two are extremely different uses.)
>
> Except... they're not. 16 random (I'm assuming) characters is what
> Google use for application passwords. Which are in fact passwords in
> their use. That's my base line.
>
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