What are Password Managers

We’ve already seen how it should be a password so we can say it’s safe.but now we are facing the problem of how to manage all those more complicated passwords (and varied) that we had so far, so we’ll see what are Password Managers.

‘As we said yesterday, ‘ there are several possibilities according to the real needs of each. Above all we have to apply common sense… if we have 4 passwords in total, we probably don’t need to pay for a service. Premium to automatically fill them in the applications or in the browser. And the same the other way around, if we have 300 passwords to manage between services, work, those of our children… because it’s probably not worth a text document or a notebook. We also need to keep in mind whether we’re going to travel or connect from other computers and we need to take the file with us.

of passwords or keep them in the cloud.

What is a password manager?

Basically, a password manager is a web application or service that allows us to store, manage and even generate secure passwords. It’s not just a place to store the passwords as they allow some more advanced functions such as checking your passwords in case one was repeated or too easy, generating a new one and changing it in the corresponding service every time and even delegating passwords if you’re going to be on vacation and want someone to continue to access a certain service (without this person knowing the password). Cool, right? However, these services do not

They’re for everyone, there are people who don’t need to kill flies by gunfire. Let’s see some examples of different managers:

Some simple possibilities if you don’t manage many passwords

– Possibility of storing passwords in browsers (Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer): If you are only going to access web services or applications, it may be a possibility… but it is not recommended as there are many ways to access these saved passwords without encryption and without password, so if someone access your computer you can see them. In addition, Chrome and Firefox do store them in the cloud if you have identified them in the browser, but with Internet Explorer there is no such possibility and if you change your computer you will have to export and import the file by hand.

– Text file: If you have to manage little passwords, you can have it in a text file. If you can put some password (such as the Apple Notes application for both iPhone (iOS) and Mac), then great. In fact, with Notes in iOS you can even open the note where you have the passwords using your fingerprint (as long as your iPhone has a fingerprint reader, of course), which greatly simplifies the task of opening the document. The biggest inconvenience of Notes is that you can’t search all your passwords, and the greatest advantage is that you synchronize the single with iCloud (the Apple cloud) and you will have l

a note on all your devices. The same goes for the text file, If you keep it on your computer, you have to worry about doing a proper backup.. Another day we’ll talk about the backup. I’m in.

– KeePass Password Safe: KeePass is a full-fledged password manager. It allows us to store all the passwords we want, organize them by groups, copy and paste them into the applications or on the websites and services we need… all of this stored in a local text file (or cloud in your payment version) that is automatically numbered, so it is not necessary to have advanced knowledge. The only inconvenience is that you have to worry about the ‘back up’ of this file, as if you take it on your mobile and lose your mobile, no one can

access your passwords but you will no longer be able to recover the file where they are stored.

Online Password Managers

– ICloud wash: Apple has a service for brand’s device owners by which all passwords are stored in the same Apple cloud. The Safari browser is able to fill the single passwords stored for services and we can manage them in a more or less simple way. In addition, it is also able to generate secure and automatically detect passwords when we are registering in some new service or if you have the password of the service we are trying to enter, all of it in form very transparent for the user. The only problem I see is that

If you don’t have a Mac you can’t organize the passwords, they’re just ‘there’ in Safari, but you can’t create groups or folders, manage them or automatically fill in the login in some applications outside Safari. A pity, I wouldn’t mind migrating all my passwords to this service if I was really able to do that and give us an interface to access the passwords as well as having them ‘there’ in Safari.

– LastPass: This is my favorite. LastPass’s philosophy is ‘the last password you’ll have to remember ‘That’s the name. It means that to access the service you will have to create a robust password (of which we already know how to create) and that password will be used to encrypt the other passwords you enter into the service. That is, if you change the password every time, the encryption you store changes again, so it is not possible to make a brute force attack to the database. The service is fant

plastic, allows generate safe passwords, change them every time (For some of the services I don’t know my password, it’s just the one that generated LastPass at the time and it’s known by LastPass, so I just have to copy it and paste it.) and delegate them to other persons. Besides, it has a security function in case something happens to us (in case we die, basically) and no one can access my passwords… Do you imagine that my wife had to access the page of Iberdrola And I was raising malves? I couldn’t access it.

r because the password is in LastPass but it could not recover the password as it would send it to my email… whose password is also in LastPass! So LastPass has solved it by creating a security contact that can access your passwords in case you’re gone… it’s a very good idea! The free version allows you to have LastPass on your mobile, in your browser and access the web, but no passwords are synchronized between them… can make sense for people who always navigate from your mobile, for example. The payment version ($12 per year) keeps everything synchronized and you can access from wherever you want, as well as have posibi

extra security benefits as the double authentication factor that we will be talking about in the near future, I am also in.

– 1password: It is a service very similar to LastPass although in this case you decide where you want to save the password file, allowing DropBox and iCloud. Of course the passwords are encrypted and even if someone gets the file it’s impossible to access the passwords. Like LastPass, allows advanced password management, segu password generation

temporary tokens to access some services. The payment service also includes synchronization between devices, which allows us to ‘relocate’ and not always have to use the same device. What I like about 1password is that the passwords are very visual, the interface is much simpler and cleaner than with LastPass, it seems all much easier and minimalist… but it’s also a little more expensive, the annual subscription comes out for about $36.

There are many other services and possibilities but here I have made you the most common or with which I feel most familiar. Now it is you who You must decide whether to use one of these managers. or if you are able to remember all the passwords we have generated safely and that allow us to access our digital life… what if we say ‘digital life’ seems to have to protect it in a safer way? It’s just that it’s really that, we’re protecting our photos, our documents, sometimes access to banks… we can’t have passwords of the type ‘12345’ (it’s the one with

more used in the world). It takes more to think about it than to decide to do it and get it going, in a little while you will have all your passwords updated and introduced into your new manager. I change them all..