If you are an average PC user, you probably have more than 14 different passwords to remember and that you use on a regular basis. You will have a password to access your PC, a password for your favorite shopping Web sites, passwords for your e-mail accounts, and another dozen or so for a variety of Web sites and applications.
An open-source software product called PasswordSafe is a good example of a small, secure application for storing your passwords in. All your passwords are safely and securely encrypted in a file so that you need to remember only one password.
If you keep all your passwords in an application such as PasswordSafe, make sure that you keep a backup of the password storage file in a safe place and update it regularly in case you suffer a PC crash and lose your data. Another advantage of using an application such as PasswordSafe is that you can use it to generate secure passwords automatically.
For instructions on creating a password that’s hard to crack, see the tip Three simple steps to a secure password.
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