What's a good way to securely keep track of all my passwords?

I use AI Roboform http://www.roboform.com/ . It has the weaknesses you mentioned, but I have it loaded on my work and home computer. When I add a new password or login, it has a function to email it. So I email it to myself and save it both places.

This does not resolve the "on the road" problem but it works great for at work and at home.

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I keep all of my passwords encrypted in an electronic organizer that is always with me.

I'm a huge fan of AI Roboform. They even have a USB drive version which I carry on my USB drive and use anywhere without putting any of my information on that computer. They even have a version for Palm OS.

I use a free program called PasswordCorral. You can access it at: http://www.cygnusproductions.com/

Has some very nice features, such as, encrypted export, will backup your data each time you exit the program, etc.

how can i put a password on my Documents

That depends entirly on the program used to create them. Some have password support, though it is often easy to crack.

Alternatively, use a compression program like WinZip that supports password protection. Again, a little harder to crack, but still crack-able with enough resources.

Finally - use the techniques outlined in this article and the article it points to. THose are the most secure approached I'm aware of.

I use my personal password hashing algorithms that takes domain name as input and gives password as output. you will have different passwords for different websites and all you have to memorise is your algorithm and nothing need to be written down except usernames. I have two algorithms: one for most websites, the other for security-required websites. the former takes 5 seconds to compute in my mind. the latter takes 30 seconds because it is more complicated. If there is a security-required website I visit frequently, I just memorise the output password rather than takes 30 seconds to compute the output each time i visit the website. All hashing computations don't have to take place in mind, you can use online numeric calculators or online md5 caculators as assistant.

I have been using Roboform for a year now. I love the program, and don't know what I would do without it. I would recommend it. I made a quick video about the program and posted it on squidoo

I travel a lot and refuse to carry a computer with me because I am older (66) and will not be a packmule .... So I carry the least amount of stuff possible, I travel light and fast.

I also found that I need to have access to passwords for Alamo, etc so I can keep moving forward, efficiently and with the least amount of baggage possible. In these days of airlines charging for extra bags, fuel charges, etc, there's many reasons for packing light All I do is load my passwords in an ascii text, password protected file on my cell phone. (remember that back in the old days of dos and cpm operating systems?)

I use a free program called "mj book" downloaded from Russia ..... it is a real simple program that will convert ascii files to game file format so books or other simple text files can be read ... Works like a champ when traveling or sitting at the local resturant .... All you need is your cellie and your main password to get into the protected file, keyword search for the password or just page down the list. It suits my needs, simple, fast, lightweight and FREE!

You can also store them on a secure web-email account you keep just for that purpose.

So, then they're accessible, whether you're on a home computer or not. And of course, you probably won't need them for non-internet conencted devices, so you'll be able to access an email account at the same time as surf the web.

The idea of using mnemonics can work this way too. Just store them in an email you've sent to yourself, or put in a draft folder. etc.

I don't know about encrupting them for online, but perhaps if you added them as an attachment to your email/draft, you could add extra security measures?

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