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UOD
04-14-03, 10:51 AM
http://www.tranglos.com/free/

Email accounts, network logins, secure websites: How do you deal with all those passwords? You could use the same user name and password for everything and make some script kiddie the happiest hacker on the Net. You could pop some Ginkgo Biloba, do your best Rainman imitation, and hope you can remember all your personal identification info. "User name Kmart, definitely Kmart." Even better, use today's free file and you'll only need to remember one password.

Oubliette is a password manager, basically an encrypted database full of all your passwords. Here's how it works.

1. Add "New Accounts" for your various passwords.
2. Enter corresponding information for each account, user name, password, URL, etc., and click OK.
3. When you want to access this information, launch Oubliette, enter your master password, and select the proper account.

Oubliette also includes a fill-form function, a random password generator, and an option that'll make accounts expire after a certain number of days. The program supports both Blowfish and Idea encryption for ultimate protection.

One question remains: Is this some kind of French thing? I mean, what's up with the name? According to the author's FAQ, an Oubliette is "a secret dungeon with an opening only in the ceiling," which makes total sense if you think about it.

The Dude
04-14-03, 11:18 AM
Looks interesting, I downloaded it, will check it out later today.
Thanks for the link.:)

Norm
04-14-03, 08:17 PM
Not to put a damper on an otherwise good program, but I used one of those password encryption programs once. Something went wrong after a few months, and I couldn't get into the program again.

I lost access to a lot of things that day, and lost over 30 passwords. Some I remembered from memory, others I got lucky with guessing.

If you decide to use one of these programs, keep another record of your passwords in a file somewhere else. A good way to keep password records is to keep them in a file without an extension buried deep in a layer of subfolders. Name the file something you will remember, but doesn't give away that it is holding password records. For added protection for the text in such a file, name all passwords backwards or something. Emphasis on "something"

The Dude
04-14-03, 10:02 PM
Good point Norm, don't want to put all your eggs in the one basket. I already have them all down on paper. I'm hoping this will save me from having dig it out the next time I delete all my cookies or do a reinstall. Actually now that I now how to export my favorites and my cookies, all I have to remember is my banking passwords. Anyway I'll give it a look see.