On Jan 28, 2004, at 7:44 AM, Suzanne asked: > I want to stop the auto-fill of passwords to increase security. If > they're not on the keychain, where are they? > > Will this actually increase security, or am I mistaken?
By default, the Keychain database is strongly encrypted with your login password as the passkey. For the extra-paranoid, an extra (different) password can be added to the keychain file. With this extra password, someone would have to go to extraordinary lengths to read your passwords. The passwords for Apple's Mail.app and Safari are stored in the keychain database. Other programs can also store passwords and encryption keys there. For example, Mozilla, Internet Explorer and Eudora use the Keychain. I use the Keychain to store other stuff because you can put notes into it. My credit card numbers are there, as are all my passwords. Stored there, they're a lot more secure than written on a sheet of paper, and a lot easier to find. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
