Use another bitcoin address as your password

[bitpop]

Oh dear.... kuverty, please tell me you are not serious.

To ease your mind, I was trolling obviously. Figured it'd be all right in this thread...

Phew . I can imagine some people actually trying this.

People don't do that!

Also beware of Windows changing meta data and hash changing. Also almost anywhere you upload it online will modify it.

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[Abdussamad]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/17/crave_duet_usb_drive_cum_vibrator/

[AnhBen]

This is a good idea. Simply use an address as your password, they are random and secure. Plus you can keep it in a list or address book and no one would think it's a password.

You can pretty much use it for any kind of password, like WiFi networks

[xtonn]

Here's my password...b75a797f-0b1e-48a2-8d90-0c3c65c04769

I made it up just now using this...

http://www.uuidgenerator.net/version4

Generate the version 4 type for max randomness...and check out the probability of generating a non-unique identifier..."The probability of one duplicate would be about 50% if every person on earth owns 600 million UUIDs."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

Take out the dashes/replace dashes with some other character/move the delimiters around/combine uuids/some other variation to boost randomness.

<hmmm>You can remember these long sequences in about 2 days...just write them out 20 times every couple of hours on the first day, and then 2-3 times on the second day. Then write them out about 2x per day about every other day to commit to longer term memory. Use a pen and paper - and cover up the last sequence you write to avoid the temptation to copy </hmmm>

[kellrobinson]

Now I know why the dumpster behind your house has all those scraps of paper with the funny little numbers on them

[bitpop]

This is a good idea. Simply use an address as your password, they are random and secure. Plus you can keep it in a list or address book and no one would think it's a password.

You can pretty much use it for any kind of password, like WiFi networks

That's a good idea. Buy a couple routers, keep them in the boxes but use the macs as your password. It'll be in clear site but no one would ever guess. Stuff like this will help people use secure passwords and not forget them.

During a fire, run out with a backup usb and your routers.

[Abdussamad]

This is a good idea. Simply use an address as your password, they are random and secure. Plus you can keep it in a list or address book and no one would think it's a password.

You can pretty much use it for any kind of password, like WiFi networks

That's a good idea. Buy a couple routers, keep them in the boxes but use the macs as your password. It'll be in clear site but no one would ever guess. Stuff like this will help people use secure passwords and not forget them.

During a fire, run out with a backup usb and your routers.

You could use the bar code on your underwear. That way you always have your password with you.

[drrussellshane]

This is a good idea. Simply use an address as your password, they are random and secure. Plus you can keep it in a list or address book and no one would think it's a password.

You can pretty much use it for any kind of password, like WiFi networks

That's a good idea. Buy a couple routers, keep them in the boxes but use the macs as your password. It'll be in clear site but no one would ever guess. Stuff like this will help people use secure passwords and not forget them.

During a fire, run out with a backup usb and your routers.

You could use the bar code on your underwear. That way you always have your password with you.

Unless you change your underwear.

[Dabs]

On a more serious note, I use pw-gen.

http://pwgen-win.sourceforge.net/

It's free. Open source. And it spits out stuff like this:

*{g1AoHd"#a|CKU}'~sMZX5$g~C"mu._i?nv6V}#
aW{j1`~N}&KS/Hu37Y$(IN@1?1,T!~j>b4;lMt<|
Fvl*a4mu*TZy?BR/G8*8>Rk|N06%geCB[}5f5D$d
u6v.;CCH(5$yOL8Z`2:kIXyhSeSJoW6\`]:+Qo[+
7u`AXzT$gock^{)4:?xgIA{fCf'1>:itTkq]]T>G
R77zjQQm5+00TzWI*IJyNH_`Rhxb1po.A3(-v~fq

But if that busts your software or website, you can also use "simple" versions like this:

FV1AbKarhC3GvWXl8qo4Uu2BkXSUguuEdEGHgb4b
jHfQfqu5c20Mm67px9vsxd9IUwyntc7aeQYYHcU0
SQItOe4ENYsElnalkae0Eq7c3IyesIlRK1gxIYms
ztcgELJLHgHVVcsDB7HqP2a1NUiH0jnjPldEKbjx
ZZFE7uexc1dr4IqJDftnJFvx3tsxvA8T2wM08lNm
dZT5NXNSHBj9zNYh4bCQRkoUmsEgtQO7gdijoLgx

And if you tweak the settings, you can even come up with bitcoin looking passwords (limit the char set to base58check.)

[bitpop]

I thought satoshi invented base58

[kellrobinson]

Unless you change your underwear.

Now why would I do a thing like that?

[t1000]

Unless you change your underwear.

Now why would I do a thing like that?

Why would anyone do such thing? 

[Dabs]

I thought satoshi invented base58

He invented the base58check particular one used in bitcoin. There is another base58, but it's different. Bitcoin's version just skips the similar looking characters IO0l.

[Mowcore]

Unless you change your underwear.

what is...this...underwear?

[bitpop]

Unless you change your underwear.

what is...this...underwear?

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