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Brain-based management is getting too exhausting, and isn't even fully possible with a larger quantity of online accounts.

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[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Idk if this is the right choice but I write them down on a piece of paper and store that paper in my locked fireproof safe.

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[–] Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Firefox remembers my passwords. For other things, text documents stored in a Veracrypt container

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I'm an old man yelling at clouds but I don't trust any of the password storing technologies. I have a system of making/writing passwords and a save a short form of them on my pc. Without knowing a specific segment you'd never be able to guess what they were so the segment is the only thing I need to remember. Having to access accounts when not at home is a massive pain in the ass though lol

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Basically the same. But not stored in a computer

[–] tyler@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago
[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago

1Password, but planning to move to VaultWarden.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

nice try hax0r

[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

I moved away from Bitwarden because they removing values from their motto and some other shady stuff. I chose to go with AliasVault, it has a pretty nice alias email feature.

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

Self hosted vaultwarden

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 points 4 days ago

Vaultwarden

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

I use online bitwarden for unimportant accounts and offline keepassxc for important ones.

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

I have a notebook and an app called Password Generator from f-droid

[–] neidu4@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I stick to brain based. I have a system that makes it easy for me to remember which password is for where. Step one is to use passphrases instead of password. Obligatory reference: xkcd correct horse battery staple

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 1 points 4 days ago

iOS password manager.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago
[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago
[–] korthrun@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Mostly with a mooltipass. I also save them in a keepass db that is only written to a thumb drive, for redundancies sake.

[–] klugerama@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I use several tools depending on context (keepass for work accounts, a custom hosted solution for everything else). But I also have a system for my passwords that allows me to figure out what it should be in case I forget. Most of my passwords follow a specific pattern that incorporates the platform and a series of characters.

This specific implementation is now out of date, as it's not really necessary (or at least it shouldn't be) to have all the special characters; length should be the critical property of a secure password, but unfortunately many, many sites still require a mix of upper/lower/numbers/special chars. Regardless, it should still be simple to come up with a way for you to know your passwords, without them all being the same.

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