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We had a sales person ask for a recommendation on personal password management.  Of course everyone recommended Password Safe.  But then the fun began:

#1

Pen and paper?

#2

And tape it to the bottom of your laptop.

#3

I just use “password” for all mine.  Keeps it real easy

#4 - This one is mine:

I developed my own block cipher and use it to encrypt all my passwords. 

Well, I say “developed”.  To be fair, it is really just a derivative work.  I basically improved on the AES standard by making it a 1024 bit key size and a 256 bit block size.

Of course, with the quantum computer I just developed, it won’t take much to crack that algorithm.  Oh well, back to the drawing board.

#5

I started to do that too but it was too easy.

#6 - the last one

Don’t beat yourself up!  Try something a little more challenging.  I use the complex XOR operation with the following key.  Works every time!

x=a e=s n=p j=w q=r p=o f=d

That was fun.

Vet

Posted by Michael Farnum on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007