Comments on: Somewhat safer passwords for all your 95 social networks and web x.0 services http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/01/24/somewhat-safer-passwords-for-all-your-95-social-networks-and-web-x0-services/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:06:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: eno http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/01/24/somewhat-safer-passwords-for-all-your-95-social-networks-and-web-x0-services/#comment-11947 eno Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:49:37 +0000 http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/01/24/somewhat-safer-passwords-for-all-your-95-social-networks-and-web-x0-services/#comment-11947 No: The browser would not know any of your passwords, but calculates it on the fly from the strong one you remember (and have to type in once in your session). It doesn't store it anywhere. So, even in an internet cafe you are on a somewhat safe side... without a password safe to be unlocked. No: The browser would not know any of your passwords, but calculates it on the fly from the strong one you remember (and have to type in once in your session). It doesn’t store it anywhere. So, even in an internet cafe you are on a somewhat safe side… without a password safe to be unlocked.

]]> By: alex http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/01/24/somewhat-safer-passwords-for-all-your-95-social-networks-and-web-x0-services/#comment-11598 alex Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:02:15 +0000 http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/01/24/somewhat-safer-passwords-for-all-your-95-social-networks-and-web-x0-services/#comment-11598 i'm not using firefox :) anyway i would call your suggestion pretty strong passwords, but the point of this really was to have an *easy* wo to avoid using the same password everywhere. try to generate an md5 hash on a windows box, see? also, wouldn't that firefox plugin you are suggesting be pretty much the same as the normal "remember password" function? give all your passwords to your computer and only keep the one to unlock that safe? i’m not using firefox :) anyway i would call your suggestion pretty strong passwords, but the point of this really was to have an *easy* wo to avoid using the same password everywhere. try to generate an md5 hash on a windows box, see? also, wouldn’t that firefox plugin you are suggesting be pretty much the same as the normal “remember password” function? give all your passwords to your computer and only keep the one to unlock that safe?

]]> By: eno http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/01/24/somewhat-safer-passwords-for-all-your-95-social-networks-and-web-x0-services/#comment-11545 eno Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:11:16 +0000 http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/01/24/somewhat-safer-passwords-for-all-your-95-social-networks-and-web-x0-services/#comment-11545 Now you take that a step further, and combine the top- and second-level domain of the service you are using, say "twitter.com", the protocol ("http") and your really really secret password ("kjs8a%!&"), mix that via md5 and voilá: semistrong passwords for all your sites, and you could even put that into a firefox plugin. What a dream: Firefox knows all your passwords, you only know the one! Now you take that a step further, and combine the top- and second-level domain of the service you are using, say “twitter.com”, the protocol (”http”) and your really really secret password (”kjs8a%!&”), mix that via md5 and voilá: semistrong passwords for all your sites, and you could even put that into a firefox plugin.

What a dream: Firefox knows all your passwords, you only know the one!

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