On 2012-01-11 11:27 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can
have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto
fills the username/password for me (if it is a web login page), but
doesn't store any password anywhere...
Of course it stores the password somewhere. How else could it log you
in next time? It isn't magic, it retrieves the password from
somewhere.
Nope, it generates it on the fly every time. It uses the current URL
(or if you create a custom account for that URL, whatever you tell it
to use), the username (if supplied), and a few other URL unique
attributes to compute it,
So it stores the data and method needed to recreate the password, same
thing. Or does it not store the username, in which case you have to use
the same username everywhere?
It would be easier for you to understand how it works if you would
simply go read about it.
The one piece that is not stored anywhere (but inside your head) is the
Master Password.
You can also use more than one Master Password, which I do (three to be
exact, one for critical stuff (server root passwords, online banking,
etc), one for less critical stuff, and one for incidental stuff...
Like I said, there is a small learning curve involved with using it, but
once you figure it out, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.
