Alternatively, you can press Option, Command and Backslash simultaneously on your keyboard. To do this, simply open the extension by clicking the 1Password key. If you have more than one Mac, an iPad perhaps, an iPhone and even Windows PCs then it makes sense to do a little forward planning to share and synchronize your encrypted password database across these devices.įor example, using 1Password we are able to save the database to a Dropbox folder, which allows us to share the same encrypted password information across many devices. For the purposes of this tutorial will be looking at 1Password. The most popular password managers are KeePassX, LastPass and 1Password.Įach of these applications works in a largely similar way to the others, but you should examine each to determine which is best for your needs. The answer is to use a password manager: a secure, encrypted database of randomly generated complex passwords. As long as you can remember one hard to crack password - and that is easy. It is possible to be able to use complex and unique passwords for everything without even the need to remember them. It is possible to have the best of both worlds. What happens if you misplace that black book, it is stolen or lost in a fire? Unfortunately, this immediately compromises their security. The answer to this problem, for so many people, is to write down their passwords in a little black book.
You soon discover this makes passwords extremely difficult to remember especially when you’re supposed to use unique passwords. Some will allow the use of spaces whilst others will not.įactor in that you are recommended to use a unique password for each service together with the fact that we have difficulty remembering complex strings of characters. Some require passwords to be a certain length, or not beyond a certain length. The conundrum is that many websites and services require the use of passwords that contain a mixture of upper and lower case, digits, and even special characters. And we will remember just one secure password to do this. All of those passwords will confirm the specific requirements and rulesets of each service - even if that means that the criteria differs between services. In this article, we will have our cake and eat it we will use complex, secure and unique passwords for everything. We also touched on how we can manage this conundrum. In an earlier article, “Picking Passwords: Pitfalls, Practicalities and Protection”, we examined the requirements and problems of modern passwords and why they are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to crack.
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