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tucosan on June 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: You have exactly three passwords, don't you?

Actually I like your idea of using a hash function.

While thinking about your solution, I remembered that pwgen on linux (I believe its also available for windows) allows you to create a recoverable password using a sha1 hash of any file and a seed. e.g.:

  pwgen -1 -H yourfile#url.tld

should allow you to create a unique password for each site, and it would be easily scriptable.

mattmanser on June 8, 2011 [–]

The point of his method is that it's a unique password which a human can recover just by looking at the url.

No batteries required.

I have a similar method, though less secure than his.

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