Pinging Jack on password management

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Greg
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#1 Pinging Jack on password management

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Nick, a while back you recommended using https://pwsafe.org/

Is this still your recommendation or is there something better to consider now?
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#2 Re: Pinging Jack on password management

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Ah. Drinking a cuppa at 3:20 AM and just saw this...

I still use PasswordSafe a little bit, but because it's just local, I now use LastPass for the bulk of my password management as I need synchronization across Windows, iOS, macOS and Android for my businesses. It's quite cool as I now have no duplicate passwords and have several 100 complex and unique passwords that frankly I don't know. The master passwords, e.g. for my key mail accounts, are not in there, and LastPass don't actually have access to your passwords - they only ship encrypted versions around and can't get the plaintext - decryption is local on the device you are using.

1Password also gets good reviews but doesn't really have a free version.

Tom's Hardware has a recent comparison:
https://www.tomsguide.com/uk/news/lastpass-vs-1password - this is not a full review, but basically says they're much the same thing.

I'm happy with LastPass - it does what I want and syncs across all my devices & key platforms.
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#3 Re: Pinging Jack on password management

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Thanks, Nick. Much appreciated.
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#4 Re: Pinging Jack on password management

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I agree on LastPass recommendation - I've been using it for several years across various devices - it just does the job, no fuss.
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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