What is the point of the NM keyring?
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sun Jul 20 22:01:26 UTC 2008
Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> But what is the point of having large numbers of passwords,
> if one password will open all the locks?
>
So if your password on one system gets compromised, it does not
compromise your password on other systems. As lone as your keyring
password does not get compromised, you only have problems with one
system. And your keyring password is less likely to get compromised
because it normally does not travel over the Internet. So you can
use a weaker, but more easily remembered password for the keyring,
and more complicated passwords for the other things. You also do not
have to try and remember all the different passwords, so you will
hopefully not use the same password for everything.
Mikkel
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