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   August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen   
   self-managed passwords with gpg   
   02 Feb 26 14:38:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 290e2409   
   REPLY: 2:280/464 6980e1a3   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.64 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   Hello Wilfred!   
      
    WvV> I've been a happy https://pwsafe.org/ user for many many years. Both on   
    WvV> Linux and Windows.   
      
   I may have heard about it in the past.  Looks good.   
      
      
    AA>> gpg -o pw-for-ebay.gpg -e -r [myID] -   
      
   [...]   
      
    AA>> When you need to view the pw:   
      
    WvV>  H:\temp>> gpg -d pw-for-ebay.gpg   
      
      
    WvV> Interesting, and maybe for emergency use, when a real password manager   
    WvV> isn't available, but otherwise I don't find it very practical...   
      
   Practical is exactly what it is!  It doesn't rely on any other 3rd party     
   software.  And compatibility across OS changes is ensured.   
      
   And.. a terminal is available to anyone, cmd-line or GUI.   
      
   Just keep all the .gpg files in a easy to remember folder:   
      
   C:\PW   
      
   .. and list all of them with DIR (or ls) *.gpg   
      
   Simple.   
      
   Build it into a script for a faster list from any diretory:   
      
           mypws, to produce the output of "dir c:\pw\*.gpg"   
      
      
   I dunno.. I think the use of gpg manually keeps us sharp.  "User-friendly" as     
   an excuse to use GUI kinda makes us lazy and dumb.   
      
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