Do you guys use a password manager? I'm looking for a good password manager that can be used cross platform on Linux and Windows. What would be the best way to securely synchronize your passwords across the internet?
Programming it on your own and encrypting it. I would never trust a password manager that you would be able to download. Sooner or later someone breaks the code and you passwords would most likely get leaked.
What MrBlame suggests is surelly better if you have time and knowhow.
Im using KeePass2. It can integrate with your browser, you can protect your passwords witha a passphrase and additionally by a file. It does not store anything on cloud which is important for me.
Give it a try. Works in Win and Linux
http://keepass.info/
Touche, but then again, I'm trusting my OS, my browser, SSL encryption, middleware software and the sites that store my passwords. One advantage of a password manager would be that I don't "have" to use the same password for multiple sites, as I'm doing now, because it's too anoying to come up with a new, strong password each time I sign up some place new.
Password managers in general are a bad idea, even (especially) letting your browsers save your passwords for websites. You'd be just as well off by using the same password for every website, it's about the same in terms of security.
What I always recommend to people is to come up with a "system" where you don't have to actually remember the password, you can sort of "generate" it from the website name or url or something.
KeePass X / 2 with key & pw, manual sync across devices.
Use KeePass and sync the password file with BitTorrent Sync (which is not cloud syncing, but peer-to-peer syncing). P2P keeps you off the cloud, and therefore not likely to fall foul of cloud-based hacks.
Password managers may not be the best idea as far as security goes, but having 100s or 1000s of random passwords is impossible to remember -- and therefore a necessity.