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Update 7\/6\/2011<\/strong> — Mirroring this site is not only allowed, but encouraged!\u00a0 If you’re interested, grab the javascript and the code and post it on your site. I’d love it if you would post a comment here if you do so.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks I’ve gotten increasingly worried about my passwords, what with all the hacking that has been going on. I was a serial password re-user and now I realize that this was a mistake. I’ve started using a password manager for Firefox at home, but this isn’t an ideal solution, as my passwords are only on my home computer. I was discussing this with some colleagues at work and thought the following might be the best solution: for each website simply take the first few (say 5) characters of<\/span> the name of the site, then concatenate that with a key phrase (perhaps the password you’ve been reusing). Then create a hash of the result and take the first few (say 12) characters. Thanks to this site<\/a>, I’ve embedded a SHA-256 hash generator below. Don’t worry — it only uses javascript so no information you type will be passed to my server.
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