Contributed by jose on from the secure-email dept.
As usual, I am looking forward to comments, suggestions, and corrections.
I include a spotlight on integrating GnuPG into the Mozilla Thunderbird email client (Windows platform).
Here is the URL:
http://www.aei.ca/~pmatulis/pub/gpg.html
Also available in PDF format:
http://www.aei.ca/~pmatulis/pub/gpg.pdf (500 kB)
Peter"
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By Dennis Decker Jensen (213.237.112.132) on
Bruce Schneier (for years) and others recommend writing down your password. Quoting Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram Newsletter, July 15, 2005,:
"Last month, Microsoft's Jesper Johansson made the news when he urged people
to write down their passwords. This is good advice, and I've been saying
it for years.
Simply, people can no longer remember passwords good enough to reliably
defend against dictionary attacks, and are much more secure if they choose
a password too complicated to remember and then write it down. We're all
good at securing small pieces of paper. I recommend that people write
their valuable passwords down on a small piece of paper, and keep it with
their other valuable small pieces of paper: in their wallet. Obscure it
somehow if you want added security: write "bank" instead of the URL of your
bank, transpose some of the characters, leave off your userid. This will
give you a little bit of time if you lose your wallet and have to change
your passwords. But even if you don't do any of this, writing down your
impossible-to-memorize password is more secure than making your password
easy to memorize.
<http://news.com.com/Microsoft+security+guru+Jot+down+your+passwords/2100-7355_3+-5716590.html>
or <http://tinyurl.com/8tuz3>
Or you can use PasswordSafe:
<http://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html>"
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By Justin () on http://www.krytosvirus.com/gpghowto/gpghowto.html
http://www.krytosvirus.com/gpghowto/gpghowto.html
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