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hero member
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April 06, 2013, 07:16:37 PM
#8
Keepass 2.22 was released on the 5th.
sr. member
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Science!
April 02, 2013, 12:11:23 PM
#7
Are there any tools for command line?  I would love a MySQL database of my encrypted passwords, info with some kind of link to an encryption/decryption library like libmcrypt or gnupg.
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March 30, 2013, 08:34:52 PM
#6
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March 30, 2013, 08:19:53 PM
#5
Thank you for all the information. I will put it to use.

BTW, can you give a simple explanation of what PGP is and how to use it? And do you have any recommendations for related freeware? Thanks.

PGP is strong encryption software. Think military grade encryption. It allows you to encrypt emails and files in such a way that they are theoretically unbreakable. It uses the concept of a private and a public key. You give your public key to everyone so they can encrypt stuff to you but whatever is encrypted to you can only be decrypted by your private key (which you protect with a passphrase and your freaking life!)

There is an open source version of PGP canned GnuPG (or GPG for short). It functions the same as PGP and can even read PGP generated files (and vice versa).

Related software you should look into is Keepass (open source, secure password storage), Tor (open source, anonymity software), TrueCrypt (open source, drive or file encryption).

Advice: if you are serious about security, do not use ANY program that relates to security and is not open source. You simply can't know what it's doing and it may compromise your security.

HTH,
CypherPunk
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March 27, 2013, 09:28:14 AM
#4
Thank you for all the information. I will put it to use.

BTW, can you give a simple explanation of what PGP is and how to use it? And do you have any recommendations for related freeware? Thanks.

I do not, I did at one time read up on pgp, my best guess is to check out the wikipedia. As to recommendations I have no idea.

Yup, np.

Great info thanks!!

I have so many passwords now, that it's insane!

Thanks!

Yup, np.

newbie
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March 27, 2013, 07:36:07 AM
#3
Great info thanks!!

I have so many passwords now, that it's insane!

Thanks!
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March 27, 2013, 05:35:01 AM
#2
Thank you for all the information. I will put it to use.

BTW, can you give a simple explanation of what PGP is and how to use it? And do you have any recommendations for related freeware? Thanks.
legendary
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March 27, 2013, 04:44:05 AM
#1
I am making this thread for ones to protect themselves from being compromised. You may add this to your sig to spread the knowledge for ones to protect themselves from being compromised.

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Note: A) Lastpass is freeware, but for some stuff you can pay, but the general use of lastpass is freeware. LastPass Password Manager is closed source, though many of the extensions can be run in a non-binary mode where the source is available, but LastPass maintains all rights.
Note: B) Keepass is freeware. KeePass is an open source password manager.
Note: C) Password Safe is freeware & opensource. (Courtesy of traderjoe)

A) https://lastpass.com/
B) http://keepass.info/
C) http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

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Create an account with lastpass, use a strong master password. Don't ever forget your master password, as you are the only one that has it.

You may download Lastpass as an Application or as a browser addon for, Firefox, Chrome, IE, etc.

Lastpass application. Download, install, input email that you used to register with lastpass and the master password you created. Get familiar with the program.

Lastpass addons. Install the Lastpass addon that is appropriate for your browser. Once done, you see a Lastpass icon somewhere in one of your toolbars of your browser, input the email you used to register with Lastpass, into the Email section of the login area then following by your master password that you created.


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Keepass, is all saved encrypted with one master password on your pc. No cloud servers or nothing. If you use keepass, backup your file in a truecrypt container file on a cloud server like dropbox or as wuala encrypts data on your pc before it gets sent to wuala servers.

Here is a How-to for Keepass. http://keepass.info/help/base/firststeps.html

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Also, I would and no doubt this has saved me from a lot of bad stuff, recommend MVPS hosts file.

You can use this on linux, rooted phones and Windows, and probably other stuff that use hosts file.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

mvps now supplies the hosts file with 0.0.0.0's. Below no longer needed. Scratched out.
If you get notepad++, you can ctrl-f 127.0.0.1, click replace all with 0.0.0.0 .

Example.
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127.0.0.1  fr.a2dfp.net > 0.0.0.0  fr.a2dfp.net

By doing this, you save a lot of space.

And you leave
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127.0.0.1  localhost
alone.

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By Tomatocage

[EDU] How to spot a scammer (Read this before doing any transactions!)

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By escrow.ms

Clickable link - Keep your system updated and stay secure. Tips to avoid viruses trojans

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Avoid Link-Scammers

Avoid Link-Scammers

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An option too up your google account security.

The security question for google, allows you to change it to a custom question.
I took with my lastpass addon and generated a character password with Show advance options ticked, everything ticked to make your password the strongest. Copy generated password, paste as security question.

Go back to generate a new password and generate a new password with highest strength possible, copy and paste for the answer.
Save/update google settings.

Open a secure note for lastpass and keep these two generated password stored under its title question/answer, which is protected by your masterpassword for lastpass.

It's just a blockade against a security question attack on your google account or any other account that has this security question feature.


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As always, comments and suggestions are always welcomed to better these techniques as I will do my best to fill them.

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