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agraddy
on Dec 18, 2010
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Write your passwords down
You mentioned adding a period for special characters but what do you do for passwords that require capitalization?
kree10
on Dec 18, 2010
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I suppose you could get that with base64 encoding rather than a hex digest. Something like:
echo -n 'Secret sentence Sitename' | openssl sha1 -binary | openssl base64
16s
on Dec 18, 2010
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Good idea. Lot's more space too when compared to hex encoding. I added it to my app:
http://imgur.com/EcqZ1
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