On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 08:38:41PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 02 Sep 2020 at 11:34:27 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > tomas writes: > > > When a passphrase is long (16) I keep a little scrap until it is > > > memorized. > > > > I just follow Bruce Schneier's advice and write all of my (random) > > passwords down. I end up memorizing the ones I use most, though. > > This memorisation of a vast number of passwords is the killer, of > course, so writing all passwords down is a good idea. Why not record > them in passwd.text? Then > > scrypt enc passwords.txt passwords.enc > > For access: > > scrypt dec passwords.enc > > and copy and paste. > > A password is required for decrypting passwords.enc. *M05o05m19m19a? > would do nicely. Just a single password to remember. It couldn't get > simpler.
Basically this is what I said I do: The passwords I use regularly are in L1 cache (my head), the others in an encrypted text file (additionally protected by the LUKS encryption around it). Cheers -- t
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