Suggestion for Interactive Brokers

[GTS]

Quote from bidask:

i wasn't saying that he should keep an encrypted password on his computer. he thinks he can avoid keyloggers by copying and pasting. i'm telling him that the cost of doing that is having to keep a plain text version of the password saved somewhere on his computer.

I guess you are missing my point, if you store a text file with all of your passwords (for copying/pasting) in encrypted form then there is no plain text version stored on the computer (except while loaded in memory)

 

[bidask]

if it's encrypted then you can't just copy and paste it into the login screen which is what he wants to do.

Quote from GTS:

I guess you are missing my point, if you store a text file with all of your passwords (for copying/pasting) in encrypted form then there is no plain text version stored on the computer (except while loaded in memory)

 

[GTS]

Quote from bidask:

if it's encrypted then you can't just copy and paste it into the login screen which is what he wants to do.

Man, you really are making this difficult:

Create Excel spreadsheet
Enter passwords
Save spreadsheet
Encrypt using NTFS encryption (File->Properties->Encrypt)

Result: File is encrypted on hard drive but while you are logged in you can open it and copy/paste the passwords just fine

If your laptop is stolen or compromised the file cannot be unencrypted without your Windows password (or a brute force attack).

Clear enough?

 

[eagle488]

I use a program called Roboform where all my passwords are stored. The program uses different forms of encryption like AES.

You can choose through the degrees of encryption. There is no computer around that can break that encryption.

I highly suggest this program.

 

[bidask]

use it then

 

[eagle488]

I think it only works for browser logons. I use the stand alone version of IB.