Remembering Passwords!

[Chopbrocoli]

I store them in my safe and on my cell phone (password protected).

[WannaHouse]

I store mine in word and in my brain. I also have lame passwords, secure PW's and VERY secure PWs. All depends on how secure I need the site.

[laz98]

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@MattH wrote:

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@guiness56 wrote:
I put all mine in a word document and lock it to everyone but me.

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The encryption of Word is not terribly high security and could be broken by somebody technical.  There are better encryption programs you should use instead.

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so it stands to reason that the encryption of excel is not "terribly high security" either, right?

[laz98]

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@WannaHouse wrote:
I store mine in word and in my brain. I also have lame passwords, secure PW's and VERY secure PWs. All depends on how secure I need the site.

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this is going to sound stupid, but i don't really know how to come up with very secure passwords.  they are too hard for me to remember, & there are so many of them that i have to remember, many of them with their own stupid rules (one capital letter, one number, one special character, written upside down in chinese...)

half the time i'm locking myself out of my accounts because i can't remember one of the rules!  

[guiness56]

I only do this at home, I would never do something like that at work.

I use my CAC card at work and for the individual passwords we do have to remember, I am constently getting them reset because I can't remember them.  One of them is 18 characters long, I can barely remember a 6 character password.

Passwords are supposed to be written to memory, not written down, or so I am told.

[MattH]

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@laz98 wrote:

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@WannaHouse wrote:
I store mine in word and in my brain. I also have lame passwords, secure PW's and VERY secure PWs. All depends on how secure I need the site.

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this is going to sound stupid, but i don't really know how to come up with very secure passwords.  they are too hard for me to remember, & there are so many of them that i have to remember, many of them with their own stupid rules (one capital letter, one number, one special character, written upside down in chinese...)

half the time i'm locking myself out of my accounts because i can't remember one of the rules!  

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There is no rule for secure passwords, there are just a lot of ways to make up bad ones.  Here are a few starting points for thinking about this, but the main idea is to be as idiosycratic and bizarre as possible.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/choosing_secure.html

http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/13353

http://geodsoft.com/howto/password/