[Chester LUG] Password manager

[Stuart Burns]

Mike, haven't you got some servers to be breaking! ;)

On 19 July 2012 11:18, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you have trouble even with ASCII characters? I know I learnt the hard
> way that '£' isn't an ASCII character :-(
>
> - MTC
>
> On 19 Jul 2012, at 10:54, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> The app will generate 64 character strings, so would that be long enough?
> The reason I created three simplified sizes of passwords (8,16 and 64) was
> because there are still a load of sites with what seem to be arbitrary
> password length limits. Now we could argue that if some of these sites are
> restricting password size to 8 characters they are doing some worrying
> things! But ignoring that issue, my aim was to offer some options for these
> bad sites. It's also the reason the passwords generated don't use special
> characters.
>
> In my original version I included them, but hit a few problems using the
> output with several sites. The other reason I have three simple levels of
> password length is to avoid people generating a password then forgetting
> what length they'd made it! By using the guides an average user should end
> up using the correct length (this was an Apple style "don't give people too
> much choice for their own good" design decision :-). Of course more tech
> savy users can use whatever length they want.
>
> Thanks
>
> Les
>
> On Thursday, July 19, 2012, Michael Crilly wrote:
>
>> 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
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