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Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords?

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:58:02 +0000, Lewis wrote:

> In message <lfp4eo$mue$1@dont-email.me>
>   Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:18:37 +0000, Randy Westlund wrote:
> 
> 
>>> For those of you who use password managers, how do you handle these
>>> situations?  For those of you who don't, what password management
>>> strategy do you use?
> 
>> Text file, symmetrically encrypted with GPG. Free format allows me to
>> store anything, and I reckon it will probably be good for any device in
>> the future - I or my heirs might need this data in 20 years time.
> 
> Doesn't allow you to store screeshots, scans of important documents, and
> the organization of a single file is... well, dreadful. My 1Password
> file is just as transportable as your text file, but much more capable.

I'm very happy for you.

It does what I want. I started with this system 10 years ago, before 
Dropbox, Android, and iOS was invented. 

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Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-11 16:18 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-11 17:14 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-11 21:14 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-12 02:49 +0000
        Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-12 04:08 +0000
          Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-12 08:08 +0000
            Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-12 08:26 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-11 17:20 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-03-11 20:24 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-11 20:48 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-11 19:49 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-11 20:49 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 23:17 +0100
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-12 01:01 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-12 09:43 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-12 21:15 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2014-03-12 08:04 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-12 08:58 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2014-03-12 09:07 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Memnon Anon <memnon+usenet@freeshell.org> - 2014-03-12 11:04 +0000
        Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-12 21:04 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Morten Nygaard Åsnes <mnaasnes@gmail.com> - 2014-03-12 12:46 +0100
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-12 10:16 -0400
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-12 14:21 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-12 16:21 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? David Jones <david.jones@fmail.co.uk> - 2014-03-12 16:43 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-12 17:14 +0000
        Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-13 06:32 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-17 07:41 +0100

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