Password Manager

To prevent unauthorized access to your accounts, it’s critical to use a strong password. Strong passwords are randomly generated to prevent them from being guessed, and long to prevent an attacker from simply trying every possible combination in a reasonable amount of time. It’s also important to never re-use a password so that a breach of one system doesn’t compromise others.

Following these recommendations, however, brings up some usability issues. Long, random passwords are difficult to remember and tedious to type in. This is precisely the issue that password managers were created to solve.

With a password manager, you’ll only have one master password to remember. The rest of your passwords can be long, random, and unique. You won’t be tempted to use short, memorable passwords, re-use the same passwords on different sites, or write passwords down and keep them in and around your desk, etc.

A good password manager:

  • Runs on all your desktop and mobile devices
  • Integrates with your browser and apps to save and auto-fill usernames, passwords, credit cards, and identities
  • Automatically synchronizes your data across your desktop and mobile devices
  • Can generate strong & unique passwords
  • Securely stores account credentials, credit cards, notes, etc. locally (rather than on a 3rd-party server of unknown security)

Enpass Password Manager

There are many popular password managers to choose from, but one we particularly recommend is Enpass.

Enpass Password Manager
  • Enpass is free for desktops/laptops, and inexpensive for mobile devices
  • It can automatically and securely synchronize your desktop and mobile devices through the Fizz Studio Cloud server
  • It has wide support across popular browsers, desktop, and mobile devices, and operating systems

Passwords that are stored in your password manager don’t need to be memorable so they should be long and randomly generated (e.g. we5yXZmaBJTaY0jNBUrUCW4qaNHEivH1).

But your master password must be something that you can remember and type in reasonably easily. For a memorable and secure password, it’s recommended to use four random, common words, with optional separators. For example: bottle-cloud-produce-BIRD or flow-their-NIMBLE-village.

Humans are notoriously bad at both generating and recognizing randomness, so use a password generator, like xkpasswd.net (click the XKCD preset, click Generate 3 Passwords, and select the one easiest to memorize).

 Enpass Downloads

 Desktop

  •  Windows (Windows 7 and above)
  •  macOS (macOS 10.11 or later)
  •  Linux (tested on Ubuntu 14.04 x64 or later, CentOS 7 and Fedora 27)

 Mobile

 Browser Extensions

Enpass Browser extensions work in conjunction with your web browser for auto-filling usernames, passwords, credit cards, and identities on web pages. They also help you generate strong and unique passwords, automatically save new logins, and a lot more.

 Help & Support

User guides and other resources can be found at the  Enpass Support website.