[Chester LUG] Password manager

[Michael Crilly]

Les,

Programmatically speaking, is there a means of producing pass phrases
instead of passwords? If you use a pass phrase, the search space of
the result is greater than that of a password. This is especially
important when you consider the availability of GPUs in the Cloud and
off the shelf for pennies. Sentences are harder for a computer to
guess than a random array of characters.

- MC

On 17 July 2012 13:49, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I mentioned at the last LUG meet that I've been working on a small
> password manager app, well it's now available and it would be great if
> some of you could take a look and try it out. The big difference
> between this and the common 'password safe' type system is that this
> tool never saves any passwords, so there's no central location to be
> attacked or lost. It works by creating repeatable passwords for each
> set of variables (your common password, pin and the name of the
> account). Take a look at the website for more information about the
> app and to download a copy - www.passeto.com.
>
> There's a desktop app (Linux version of course!) and an online version
> for when you're on the move. I'm going to add some more features in
> the near future and hopefully produce a mobile app.
>
> Please take a look and email directly if you have any questions,
> feedback or feature requests! It's not Open Source (yet) but is free
> for all.
>
> Thanks
>
> Les
>
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- Crilly