#Passwordsafe how to#
For guidance in selecting the master password, refer to Eric Wolfram’s “ How to Pick a Safe Password“. For this reason, it is imperative to choose a strong master password. Provided a secure master password, referred to as the combination, has been chosen for the safe, no one should be able to decrypt the passwords stored within the safe, even if they obtain a copy of the file. How is PasswordSafe more secure than storing passwords in a text file or database? All passwords within the database (called a safe) are encrypted using the Blowfish algorithm, also developed by Bruce Schneier, which has so far proven to be unbreakable. Originally developed by Bruce Schneier’s Counterpane Labs it is now developed and administered by Jim Russell and Rony Shapiro as a SourceForge project. It uses a secure, encrypted database to store each password and can only be accessed by providing the master password. PasswordSafe is intended to be a secure solution for maintaining a list of passwords. PasswordSafe is one solution to the problem. Because of the need to recall dozens of passwords and keep up with their rotation many people are forced to use insecure shortcuts such as storing passwords in an unencrypted file or overusing the same password on many systems.
Everyone is aware that selecting passwords wisely and safeguarding them should be an important priority, yet most people need to remember so many passwords that it’s nearly impossible to do so.
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