2. Password Managers 101
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Random

3. What is a Password Manager?
• Used for storing and generating passwords
• Some generate from random and some calculate on demand
• Some store other kinds of sensitive data

4. Why Use a Password Manager?
• Creating and remembering secure passwords can be hard
• Help prevent password reuse
• What we know about creating secure passwords is now wrong

5. Managed Service Password Managers
• Available anywhere with an internet connection
• Don’t have to personally manage database maintenance, performance, security, etc.
• Special features

6. • $24 per year ($2 a month)
• Very good cross platform
• Emergency contact, 2FA features,
LastPass Sentry (alert of breaches)

7. • $36 per year ($3 a month)
• $65 for single local license
• TOTP (time-based one-time
password) generator,
Watchtower (alert of breaches)

8. Other Managed Service Password Managers
• Dashlane
• Passpack

9. Local Password Managers
• Databases are locally stored
• Can use multiple databases to separate tasks
• Free, OSS, or minimal one time fee

10. • Free and $10 app
• Very good cross platform
• Portable and TOTP generator

11. • Open Source
• Ported to many platforms
• Plugin system

12. Other Local Password Managers
• Keychain
• Password Safe
• Pass

13. Hardware Password Managers
• Actual physical devices
• Can be used as HID devices
• Fairly new on the market

14. • $79.00 + Shipping ($4 for
extra cards)
• Nice aluminum construction
and on-board display
• Works on Android and
iPhone

15. • €115 Shipped (~$135)
• Store your Bitcoin wallet
account
• In public beta

16. Other Hardware
• Pastilda
• The FinalKey