Is it safe to store passwords on a USB?
A USB stick is not the most reliable piece of hardware ever, and it can be lost. You should keep backups. I have used a similar method in the past: I had a plain-text file containing my credentials and encrypted this with the Blowfish cipher. Much more secure than a text file encrypted just once (N = 1, see below).
Does LastPass use Flash?
It is also worth mentioning that LastPass does not support Flash-based or Silverlight-based websites. If the webpage you’re visiting is built on either of these platforms, autofill won’t work. Another reason why LastPass autofill won’t work is that you’re using an outdated app or extension version.
What’s the best way to store user passwords?
In summary, here is our minimum recommendation for safe storage of your users’ passwords: Use a strong random number generator to create a salt of 16 bytes or longer. Feed the salt and the password into the PBKDF2 algorithm. Use HMAC-SHA-256 as the core hash inside PBKDF2.
How are passwords stored on a hard disk?
To verify a user’s password at login, we keep the user’s submitted password in memory – so it never needs to touch the disk – and compute its hash. If the computed hash matches the stored hash, the user has fronted up with the right password, and we can let him login.
What’s the best way to secure your data?
Another method of securing data is to hide it inside an image file. The following article shows you how to use a free tool, called Free File Camouflage, to hide a file inside an image file protected with a password.
Is it a good idea to store passwords unencrypted?
If you are running a small network, with just a few users whom you known well, and whom you support in person, you might even consider it an advantage to store passwords unencrypted. That way, if someone forgets their password, you can just look it up and tell them what it is.