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[Discuss] Password app
- Subject: [Discuss] Password app
- From: smallm at panix.com (Mike Small)
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:08:27 -0400
- In-reply-to: <54380B88.3060308@mattgillen.net> (Matthew Gillen's message of "Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:38:32 -0400")
- References: <CANaytceVbqFZsAjVGjhFvuKjb2y473K57x0-ZZbOdFa5496puQ@mail.gmail.com> <li6zjd3yl4p.fsf@panix5.panix.com> <54380B88.3060308@mattgillen.net>
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? -- Mike Small smallm at panix.com
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