[plug] [OT] Security problems with NTFS

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Fri Oct 24 10:01:27 WST 2003


On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:51:01AM +0800, Willhart - Lawrie Abbott wrote:

| Or how about using the 'feature' to store difficult to remember 
| passwords?  Too insecure?

Yes.  Use GPG to encrypt them, and then you only have to remember your
GPG passphrase...  And make sure that the encrypted password file is
chmod'ed 600 too, just to be paranoid.

Cameron.

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