What I do is the following:
I write the passwords down.
Many people will cringe and scream and curse me and say that this is wrong and should never be done, but this is too simplistic an assertion. Details matter. Here are the details:
I keep the passwords in a text file.
When I get out of ...
@Gilles ON THE FIRST MINITEL PROTOTYPE, LETTERS WERE ORDERED AS A B C D E ... ON THE FIRST ROW, AND SO ON. IN OTHER WORDS: REJOICE, IT COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE.
Passwords should be hashed (not encrypted, please) because: 1. human users reuse passwords on other sites/systems, and 2. we want to prevent attackers who got a read-only glimpse on part of the database to upgrade their powers into read-write access to the rest of the database.
What I do is the following:
I write the passwords down.
Many people will cringe and scream and curse me and say that this is wrong and should never be done, but this is too simplistic an assertion. Details matter. Here are the details:
I keep the passwords in a text file.
When I get out of ...
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