Ask HN: safe program for showing saved passwords

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1642597

by ahmedaly • 16 years ago

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Hello.. I need a safe program to view all the saved passwords on my laptop... including passwords saved on internet explorer, firefox, and bla bla bla..

Waiting for your answer, and thanks in advance, Ahmed.

sdiwakar• 16 years ago

I'm guessing you are on Windows, so I'd recommend Keepass (google for official web-site). Store all your passwords in there or any similar password store.

If Windows 7 now has the ability to securely store passwords ala MacOSX's Keychain or a Java's Keystore, that could also be an option worth investigating.

ax0n• 16 years ago

he wants a tool to dig up passwords that have already been cached. I don't think there's an all-in-one tool to do this, and I'd bet the ones that claim to be able to are shady or very expensive. Probably both.

jason_slack• 16 years ago

Cut your loses, reset your passwords and use a program called "your brain"

Serious, I am not being an ass. I remember all of my complex passwords for everything, no hackers can get to them, no hidden piece of paper in my office and no post-it note on my monitor.

appl3star• 16 years ago

Use 1password (1password.com) - and keep an online copy of your 1password password file at cloudsafe.com

akx• 16 years ago

Nirsoft has many, many good password recovery tools. http://nirsoft.net/password_recovery_tools.html

k0ban• 16 years ago

Try multi password recovery on windows

http://passrecovery.com/features.php

Ask HN: safe program for showing saved passwords

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