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Tools for managing multiple passwords

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Of course, nothing is completely safe unless it only exists in your head (assuming that you don’t forget). So if you’re uncomfortable trusting all of your passwords to one source — especially sensitive passwords for banking, for example — then you may want to have a separate system for those.

The bestOne suggestion that I’ve heard to keep track of separate passwords is to use an algorithm to create unique passwords based upon the site name or some other criteria. Some good examples can be found here http://www.dc214.org/notes/july2005/Mnemonic-Password-Algorithms.pdf.

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