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Encrypting Your Files Or Passwords

Yesterday, I ended up downgrading my Opera browser to the latest stable version (from the beta). I didn't think I would have any problems.

When I upgraded, all of my cookies and saved passwords were retained. When I downgraded, I lost all of them. For close to a year, I've been relying on the built in password manager. After this experience, I'll never rely on the built in pw managers again.

If you're into affiliate marketing, I'm sure you have tons of accounts. Besides CJ, Linkshare, and Clickbank, there's a bunch of companies that manage their own programs. So with that, they all have different passwords. Having to log onto each one is a major drag. I think it's nearly impossible to remember tons of passwords.

I've tried to keep my keywords consistent over the last several years, but didn't have much luck. Companies had various requirements. Some would required only letters and numbers up to 6 characters, some more, some less, some required punctuation. So that whole idea of consistency was just wishful thinking.

Using Opera for a while, I got hooked on their system.

Today, I started looking for an alternate solution. At first, I was thinking about just putting them in a Word doc with a password lock. I didn't like that, especially since Microsoft products are the hackers playground.

There is a bunch of online password managers. That seemed like a risk too. You never know if the site administrator will take advantage of your info.

How about an offline password manager? These seemed okay...at first. I tried one out last year and after I loaded it, my firewall alerted me that it was trying to access the internet. I wonder why?

So I finally found something that I really like, and it's free. It's called Locknote from a company called Steganos. It will encrypt your text file with AES 256 bit encryption. That's pretty great considering that most secure shopping systems use 128 bit encryption.

The program is close to 300K, which is pretty small. So it doesn't take up much resources. With MS Word, I would have to wait a little for it to load. With this, you click it and it opens fast...it's kind of like Notepad.

It doesn't require any installation too. So I could access the file from a USB stick or a remote server.

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