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You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised (www.theregister.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42164102

Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromised.…

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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

What did you do instead?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I have a few that I just have off the wall for a few things and I memorize those. Some I just use ssh keys. Others go off a pattern and I put hints in a file to figure it out. The account itself is not even put in this file, so I have to just know what the hints mean for both the account and what password pattern hints go with them. Usually, the user IDs are something I store in this file, because those get too tough for the aforementioned methods of determinism.

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