Anyone uses password hashing and master password?

[Ivo]

On another note, that's the first time I've ever been able to use a brand-new xkcd comic in real conversation!

That is because that comic motivated me to post the question (I hope that doesn't ruin the occasion for you though!).

So far no one here uses one of the hashers (pwdhash, password hasher), or a vault like tool such as Lastpass?

I wanted opinions on that.

Niode - your suggestion is possibly the best but I think it takes some amount of effort.

For reference, I have separate passwords for anything I consider more important (e-mail, ebay, paypal, banking).

Ivo.

[RCBH928]

I find it hilarious how people have 'secure passwords' but use the same bloody password for every single website.

I use a fairly simple method for changing my passwords. I have a long master password with a cipher that I use to change my passwords to each website. Something fairly straight forward that I can remember and alter on the fly. I've got about 20-30 (possibly even more for logons that I don't use often) passwords that I remember on a regular basis because I remember the cipher and apply to the correct keyword. Simple.

You could do something similar like take a specific book, memorise a particular page and then just take passwords from that so you remember the page, the paragraph and sentence, for added security use a cipher to change the letters. so you move each letter one step backwards in the alphabet or replace certain letters with symbols or every 3rd letter is capitalised, keep it simple but not obvious. That way, should you forget your passwords, you just need to look at the page, your memory will jog as soon as you see the keyword and if you use the cipher you will be able to work out what the password is. That is very secure and best of all, you have a written copy of all your passwords that nobody will ever figure out. Even if they know you use a book as a prompt, they can't possible work out what page you use, or even what book.

Could you explain your approach again in simplified matter, I am interested