Tuesday, August 2, 2011

What Can A Password Management Tool Do for You?

By definition, a password is a sequence of characters used to determine that a computer user requesting access to a computer system is really that particular user. The proliferation of social computing and the account-fueled websites that enable social behavior over the Internet has led to an explosion of passwords. In turn, the exponential growth of passwords needed to conduct daily activities has encouraged the adoption of password managers.
However, it is a great risk to set ONE password to all sites, or a big headache to take down much passwords. So, it is wise to find an easy and trusty password manager to do all the things for you. Then you would never forgot your password again.
How it works to manage password?
Password managers work by associating child passwords to a parent or master password that you select; this allows for the manager to automatically log on to any number of websites you desire using the master password. Password managers come in three varieties: Web-based managers store your data on a provider's servers; desktop managers store all your passwords in a local database and a mobile manager stores your passwords on mobile devices. A mobile manager can also be used as a mobile application on a portable drive.
One-Time Passwords
Passwords stored on computer hard drives or servers are always vulnerable to some form of electronic theft. To avoid the dangers of static passwords, password managers use dynamically generated single-use passwords to reduce the chance the password can be captured. One-time passwords are generated randomly from a complex algorithm, used once, then rendered invalid to prevent pattern recognition software from anticipating sequential patterns.
But sometimes, we did not use a such a tool to manage our passwords. Take Windows password for example,  We often forgot Windows password due to its complexity or long time  disuse. Then, is there any way to reset Windows password? At this time, if you did not have a password reset disk or another available admin account, Windows password recovery tool is neccessary, like Windows Password Unlocker, Ophcrack or Offline NT Password & Registry Editor.

1 comment:

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