From gnupg-users Mon Apr 25 18:04:31 2011 From: Ingo =?utf-8?q?Kl=C3=B6cker?= Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:04:31 +0000 To: gnupg-users Subject: Re: A better way to think about passwords Message-Id: <201104252004.32351 () thufir ! ingo-kloecker ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gnupg-users&m=130375499519294 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0720356228==" --===============0720356228== Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart4227704.Pnu3IaiH5V; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit --nextPart4227704.Pnu3IaiH5V Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 25 April 2011, MFPA wrote: > Hi >=20 >=20 > On Sunday 24 April 2011 at 5:47:40 PM, in >=20 > , Ingo Kl=C3=B6cker wrote: > > A Post-It is much more secure if you > > do not have to keep the password secret from people > > who have physical access to your computer. For most > > home users this should be the case. >=20 > That would be for home users who live alone and never have visitors > that snoop around the place. (-; You have watched too many films were students steal their teachers'=20 passwords by looking under their keyboards. ;-) If you do not live alone but still have to keep your passwords secret=20 from those living with you (i.e. you do not trust them) then you better=20 make sure those other people are either computer-illiterate or never=20 have unattended access to your computer. Regards, Ingo --nextPart4227704.Pnu3IaiH5V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk21t7AACgkQGnR+RTDgudjX4QCgl1LFOIXDlxeGEnKJG/ST6Cba UGUAoMOJa0IQji6S/mGKUzewEq4KRImr =ktyu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4227704.Pnu3IaiH5V-- --===============0720356228== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users --===============0720356228==--