Passwords on the fly

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Seems like people are just getting lazier and lazier these days

What's wrong with exercising your memory cells a bit?

I must have over 10 different passwords that I use regularly, I don't write them down anywhere, I prefer to keep them in my head - no one has yet managed to hack the human brain so I guess it's still the most secure storage device to date.

I find it quite simple to invent passwords that are easy for me to remember without them being incredibly obvious to others.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Nail on the head! Fireflight should be cheaper, easier to deploy, less likely to have the problems like lost or broken physical tokens, etc. Just drop a mail to [email protected].

Thanks jus for explaining how it works. More sense than carrying around many little OTP key-rings. Sounds really great and while the idea may not be unique (I contemplated something like this to learn python on my E65) I can say that its far better to leave this stuff to a 3rd party for development.

I'm surprised at how much cr@p you got have to go through to get apps to work on various cellphone models never mind brands (our company is also doing development on various handsets but thank goodness I'm not involved).

 

[zamicro]

KeePass... open source, free, and there's a mobile version, so you can take your passwords with you wherever you go...

This is what I am using.

 

[jus]

Seems like people are just getting lazier and lazier these days

What's wrong with exercising your memory cells a bit?

I must have over 10 different passwords that I use regularly, I don't write them down anywhere, I prefer to keep them in my head - no one has yet managed to hack the human brain so I guess it's still the most secure storage device to date.

I find it quite simple to invent passwords that are easy for me to remember without them being incredibly obvious to others.

That unfortunately doesn't stop your password(s) from being keylogged or intercepted somehow though...

 

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That unfortunately doesn't stop your password(s) from being keylogged or intercepted somehow though...

True enough, I can't argue with that..

However fancy software on your cellphone doesn't prevent it from being stolen either.

Personally I think it would be easier to steal my cellphone than keylog my passwords.

 

[mancombseepgood]

There are multiple security levels - take a look at www.fireflight.co.za - it's pretty secure, believe me... once you understand the technology, you will understand just why it will work well...

 

[jus]

True enough, I can't argue with that..

However fancy software on your cellphone doesn't prevent it from being stolen either.

Personally I think it would be easier to steal my cellphone than keylog my passwords.

You are right, except the Fireflight application is PIN protected and self-encrypted (when you launch the app you have to tap in a short numeric PIN of your choosing). Also, all your Fireflight tokens can be suspended so that the passwords generated by them are invalid.