Reply to post: Re: Using a password manager

Stolen passwords integrated into the ultimate dictionary attack

Charles 9

Re: Using a password manager

"Until said password manager becomes mainstream and the blackhats reverse engineer the "random" generator algo."

Even if they reverse-engineer it (and the one in KeePass is open-source), if the algo was seeded properly with truly random data (or even just truly ephemeral data, like the time of creation to the microsecond--try figuring out THAT one), they'll still be at a loss to reconstruct the password. It's like trying to predict the lottery.

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