PasswordMaker

So many passwords. So hard to manage them all. But finally, a sensible way to create and manage them. PASSWORDMAKER takes a master password you supply, and hashes it with the url of the site you are looking at to produce a one-way password for that site. This is done either by a Firefox extension or an online web page (the online web page can also be downloaded and installed on your own computer).

This is a great idea, and they really have thought of all the details of sub-domains, required password changes and so on, and you get many options for generating the password, but unfortunately I did find a confusing flaw. The on-line version would obviously be necessary when using something without Firefox, but I couldn't get it to generate the same passwords that the Firefox extension does. Obviously some option I'm not seeing is set differently, but I can't find it. That makes me a little leery of this - it would be very annoying if I needed that feature and it didn't work.

Other than that potential gotcha (and I'm sure that the magic match is in there somewhere), this is a great idea.

Originally found at TipMonkies

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