A truely universal password manager
10/08/08 11:03 Filed in: Web
Password
managers have become commonplace. Every modern
web browser has one built in, there are even fancy
utilities that integrate into all of your web
browsers to manage your passwords. The whole idea
of a password manager is to only have to remember
one password, generally refereed to as the master
password. This is great! That means that you can
use complex and automatically generated passwords
and not have to remember any of them! Password
managers improve security and increase ease of
use. But as soon as you’re away from your computer
and on another machine, you can’t access any of
the websites you log into because you don’t know
the password for that site, which is why most
people (myself included) just use the same, simple
password for all of their websites.
Thankfully I have recently discovered a truly universal password manager: SuperGenPass. SuperGenPass works with any modern web browser. It doesn’t store your passwords, so it can be used on any computer. And, SuperGenPass doesn’t need to install anything to work. It is a bookmarklet, a piece of Java Script that when clicked, performs an action, in this case, fills in your password. SuperGenPass creates secure passwords using a very complex math problem, based on your master password and the domain name of the site you are logging into. If even one character is different in either your master password or the domain name, the password that is generated will be completely different. Because SuperGenPass uses a complex math problem to generate your passwords each time you enter them, it doesn’t need to store your passwords anywhere on your computer, making it a very safe and truly universal password manager.
Thankfully I have recently discovered a truly universal password manager: SuperGenPass. SuperGenPass works with any modern web browser. It doesn’t store your passwords, so it can be used on any computer. And, SuperGenPass doesn’t need to install anything to work. It is a bookmarklet, a piece of Java Script that when clicked, performs an action, in this case, fills in your password. SuperGenPass creates secure passwords using a very complex math problem, based on your master password and the domain name of the site you are logging into. If even one character is different in either your master password or the domain name, the password that is generated will be completely different. Because SuperGenPass uses a complex math problem to generate your passwords each time you enter them, it doesn’t need to store your passwords anywhere on your computer, making it a very safe and truly universal password manager.
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