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Storing Your Encrypted Passwords Offline On a Dedicated Device

Posted by samzenpus on from the built-to-last dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Hackaday writer Mathieu Stephan (alias limpkin) has just launched a new open source/hardware project together with the Hackaday community. The concept behind this product is to minimize the number of ways your passwords can be compromised, while generating long and complex random passwords for the different websites people use daily. It consists of a main device where users' credentials are encrypted, and a PIN locked smartcard containing the encryption key. Simply visit a website and the device will ask for confirmation to enter your credentials when you need to login. All development steps will be documented and all resources available for review."

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  1. Re:if you can access it on a website by SuricouRaven · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clumsy is precisely the problem.

    Three mail accounts. Laptop bios, laptop login, laptop root. Several encrypted archival hard drives. Slashdot login. The Register account. Furaffinity account. Home server user password, home server drive encryption password, home server root password. Minecraft account. Ukfur forum password. Work user password. Work domain admin password. Work test user account passwords. Ebuyer account password. Ebay password. Paypal password. GPG private key password. Retroshare private key password. Three sites I'd rather not mention. 1and1 hosting password. Domain name registrar password.

    That's just what I can remember right now, so it's probably around half of what I actually have. How do I remember so many? I don't. Very few humans are capable of that. It's bordering on impossible. You need to either have a list somewhere written down, or reuse passwords a lot. Neither option is ideal - both introduce security vulnerabilities.