hnKJF39&#NG)@!? Not Good Enough.
While checking out Mashed Life a new security site that helps you out with your passwords, I couldn’t seem to get past the sign-in process. I wanted to have the most secure password possible, especially for a site that’s going to hold all of my other passwords in a centralized location. But the most obscure password I could think of barely filled half the security bar. Banging incessantly on the keyboard, alternating between shift, caps lock, letters, numbers, symbols, and spaces never got me past 75%. If this is security, is it supposed to be ironic that I can’t get past 75% secure?
There are lots of services offering to host all your passwords or provide the toughest encryption, but logically each of these will require one password to rule them all. Yubikey, Usable, keychains, and browser plug-ins will all help us out with remembering and encryption, but none of these seem to solve the ultimate problem: to maintain all passwords will always require a password. Without being able to produce a secure password, it seems to me that the anonymity of keeping my services separate is still strongest. At least I’ll be lost in a large crowd on each individual site, without raising the potential of being targeted for all of my passwords maintained in one (again) password-protected area. Until I can find out how to beat that by banging on my keyboard.