{"id":19,"date":"2014-03-01T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/?p=19"},"modified":"2014-04-23T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T13:21:57","slug":"keeping-your-passwords-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Keeping your passwords safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is recommended to have more than one password, preferably each website \/ service we are using should have its own unique password. Obviously this is not an easy task to master, especially for websites \/ services that are\u00a0only rarely visited. Writeing down the password in an unencrypted text-file is an option, but it is not recommended due to security concerns. Writeing it down on a piece of paper is easy, but one might lose that piece of paper, or worse, somebody else might steal it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most WebBrowsers have a built-in password store, though the reliability and security of those built-in stores is often a joke. Therefore, an alternative solution, which stores passwords independently from your Browser and even encrypts them, is recommended.<\/p>\n<p>I personally use and recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/keepass.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">KeePass Password Safe<\/a>. It is easy to use and even has the ability to generate passwords, though I will talk about generating (easy) memorable passwords later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/keepass_example.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21\" src=\"http:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/keepass_example-300x198.png\" alt=\"KeePass Example\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/keepass_example-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/keepass_example.png 803w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KeePass <a href=\"http:\/\/keepass.info\/help\/base\/security.html\" target=\"_blank\">claims<\/a> to encrypt the password database using either AES with a 256 bit key or Twofish with a 256 bit key. In addition, a strong key derivation method using SHA-256 and a 128-bit random salt is provided. This is important in the case of a weak master password. I personally use a 15 character long master password which I can easily remember (after years).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is recommended to have more than one password, preferably each website \/ service we are using should have its own unique password. Obviously this is not an easy task to master, especially for websites \/ services that are\u00a0only rarely visited. Writeing down the password in an unencrypted text-file is an option, but it is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/?p=19\">...continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chkr.at\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}