How do you store ID's and Passwords

[D1gger]

How do you folks keep track of all the various IDs and passwords that you accumulate while working / communicating on the internet?

At last count I have over 50 different internet sites that I log onto with a username and password. For obvious reasons some of these are fake id usernames, and a few are valid id usernames (online banking, internet purchasing, etc). The key point is that I don?t have the same username and / or password for all of the sites.

I currently keep have a simple text file under a non-obvious name that I have squirreled away on my computer, as well as a copy of it on my blackberry (so I have access to the data both at home and on the road). It makes me nervous to have this file around, especially carrying it on my blackberry.

What do the rest of you do to store this information? Do you simply have one ID/password for everything, or do you have a memory that can remember all of this information?

 

[imported_LoKe]

My solution to paranoia in this sense is to encrypt things in a simple manner. Just have one letter/number universally replaced by another. IE :

passw0rd110

1 = g

passw0rdgg0

 

[BooGiMaN]

i use a program called keepass its free and pretty handy

 

[lozina]

I made a little app with which I have a single password which acts as a key to encrypt the URL of the site at which I want to log into. The hash that comes out of this encryption is what I use as password. So I only have to remember one password yet whoever I log into wouldn't be able to use my password somewhere else.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
i use a program called keepass its free and pretty handy

 

[Nothinman]

I use a program called cpm that stores them in an XML file (XML doesn't seem like the best choice, but it's what the author chose) and encrypts that file with gpg. Also since I've been doing that I've been using pwgen to generate good, random passwords. I figure since I'm not wasting time remembering them anyway I might as well make them secure.

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
i use a program called keepass its free and pretty handy

 

[nweaver]

I've found that a sticky note under my keyboard works great 😉

 

[sciencewhiz]

I use gnukeyring on my palm.

 

[mzkhadir]

what about roboform, thats what I am using now

 

[notfred]

I use a post-it note I keep in my wallet.

 

[sandorski]

Pen/paper or brain.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
i use a program called keep-ass its free and pretty handy

LOL

 

[DJFuji]

keepass works on both PC and PPC. Very handy.