Does anyone have an old fashioned crypto sheet to develop passwords

Not sure what that is, but I use diceware for creating passwords; https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

You can make those even more secure by still adding numbers and special characters, as well as coming up with special misspellings/abbreviations/translations of words that come out of your dice rolls.

CapCity12thMan said:

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LastPass user here...I use the generate password dialog all the time:

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I use Passpack. Same concept here.

I also have a last pass account and use the password generator to generate a random string. The main lastpass password login to lookup or use my passwords is similar in style to the xkcd comic.

I've got at least 75 different accounts, though not all are used regularly. A few might be dead. How many passwords will Lastpass keep? I'm assuming you generate the password for, say, Texags and then store it online, right? If not, how does it work?

Password vaults like lastpass can support. Thousand of accounts. I personally use keepassx and use Dropbox to sync a copy to phone, pc, tablet and other devices. Free and routinely audited for security.
Does not depend on network being alive since local copy on each device.

Thanks all, I went with 1password to generate and save passwords. I like it so far

+1 for 1password, though currently having an issue getting my mac and Palm to sync.

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Mattressburn said:

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If you want to not use a password generator here's an interesting comic

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Unfortunately, most password requirements force you to use the first type instead of the second type.

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out company actually just switched and is telling everyone to do the latter.

Yall dont use the same password that your dad made up when he signed you up for yahoo mail in 1998?

I have like 8 email accounts and I have different passwords of varying complexity on everyone account and I have them all memorized and yes I change them on a regular basis. Cause I'm a narcisist and should be using LastPass.

I can remember a lot of passwords, but at some point it just becomes way too much of a hassle to deal with in today's environment even if you completely ignore the security risks.

Even trying to use the exact same bad password for every account for years, I still ended up with about 5 or 6 different variations of it, because of different format requirements, or certain accounts forcing me to change and use a non-identical password, and it just became unmanageable dealing with accounts that would lock you out if you didnt pick the right combo right away and everything else. I have just under 90 different accounts stored in my LastPass right now, and I'm still having to add accounts occasionally that I didnt remember I had when those come up for whatever reason.

mazag08 said:

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Yall dont use the same password that your dad made up when he signed you up for yahoo mail in 1998?

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No, some of us are old and were already out of the house when the interwebs started

kbw01 said:

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Thanks all, I went with 1password to generate and save passwords. I like it so far

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To update my post 4 comments above the quoted post, I just made the switch from Passpack to 1Password. I'm really liking it. Though I had used PP for years almost without issue (a couple of times their site was down), Passpack kind of concerned me in that they've been in beta on their latest version for a while. There's no updates on their twitter, facebook pages (even still have their old logo) so I decided to make the switch.