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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Keeping track of a lot of passwords
- Message-ID: <5006@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 18:52:33 GMT
- References: <1992Jul9.035150.3220@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Jul9.180755.16913@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <62453@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <62453@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
- >My current scheme is to have a file that lists the various passwords
- >I am using. This file will be encrypted with a password that is *NEVER*
- >*EVER* used for anything else, and *NEVER* *EVER* written down anywhere.
- >Perhaps this file will even be kept off-line. How does this seem?
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- This sounds like an opportunity for some calculator company (probably
- Japanese).
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- I can see having a password file in the continuous memory of a hand-held
- computer which I carry with me at all times.
-