Of course I’m not asking you to give away your passwords. But for those of you who have so many, how do you keep track of them all? Do you use any unique methods?

I know many people struggle between having something that’s easy to remember and something that’s easy to guess. If you keep a note with your passwords on it, for example, it can be stolen, lost, or destroyed, or if you make them according to a pattern that’s easy to remember, the wrong people might find them easier to guess.

  • traches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    For passwords you have to keep in your head, diceware. Surprised it’s not already mentioned! Basically you roll dice to choose words from a long wordlist until you have 6 or 7 words.

    Human brains are good at remembering words. It’s way easier to remember a password that looks like:

    grandson estimator virtuous scabbed poet parasitic

    than it is to remember a random character string.

  • WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 months ago

    I have hundreds of passwords, there’s no way I could manage that without a password manager.

    1Password isn’t terrible, it’s pretty intuitive.

    Bitwarden is another popular option.

    Using the same (or similar) passwords for multiple things is a really bad idea.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    For cases where I may not have access to a password manager, I have a standard procedure where I’ll take the website url, add a fixed salt word, and run it through a hash function.

  • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    I have four passwords I memorize: my password manager, my main email, my work login, and a throw away password for stuff that doesn’t matter too much (signing up for giveaways, throw away social media accounts, etc). For everything else I have the password manager create some twenty character monstrosity.

    The four memorized ones are all nine letter words with numbers and symbols replacing letters usually always including a comma somewhere as I heard once that a comma makes a password hardet to crack (but, now thinking about it, I don’t know where I heard that and it sounds like a myth).

  • Ænima@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 months ago

    For the work passwords I have to remember and cannot always access a password manager, I use pass phrases instead. Statistically, 3 random, non-similar words, are more secure than normal passwords. Changing random letters to symbols and capitalizing can further improve the security. For instance…

    • Stove glob3 hamst#r
    • pants Stuffin& quote
    • z1ptie float beet$l
  • randombullet@programming.dev
    2·
    2 months ago

    I use passphrases from movies of shows that I like. Then add a special symbol and a number that I like.

    Thanks for nothing you useless reptile!61

    This has 100.54 bits of entropy. I consider anything above 60 sufficient enough

  • Korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    2 months ago

    I use a hardware password manager that connects over USB or bluetooth for most things. The few things that I use often I have a system for, and that system is popular culture.

    Love “The Prisoner of Azkaban”? Initialize it, and add the publish date some where: HP&TPoA|1999

    Starship troopers fan? Initialize a memorable quote. “The enemy can not push a button… if you disable his hand. Medic!”: Tecnpab…iydhh.M! Need numbers? Find a quote with numbers, or add the release year, or the number of times you watched it that one weekend where you and a friend watched it 32 times.

    Like TV shows more? How about the fourth episode of family guy: S1-MindOverMuder-E4.

    Metal Fan? I do love track three off of Metallica’s 1983 album: #3|Motorbreath-1983

    Etc.