I have this one password in my head that is genuinely the most important one I'll ever have in my entire life.What if I forget it?There is literally zero copy of it anywhere - not on paper, not on any drive, not in any note app, not in any password manager, not photographed, nothing. If my brain loses it, it's game over forever.I'm starting to get genuinely scared of the day my memory inevitably starts glitching on me.So... how the hell do people actually protect ultra-critical passwords they refuse to store anywhere?
>>107853450Write on paper and hide somewhere. If you want, do this with 2 papers. But don't write any context related text on those papers, just your password
>>107853450bye bye cp
Write it down if the peace of mind outweighs the security risk for you. If you've got something like a 7zip archive or local password manager file using that password and you remember some of the password it might be possible to brute force it. Like say you remember 3 out of 6 words that make up your password. But if you forget too much of it or all of it then it's over.
>>107853489its not cheese pizza, its not even electronic
>>107853450>"How can I protect data without protecting it against data loss"Your question is an oxymoron. Redundancy in the form of having more than one storage device to store data on is the gold standard and the foundation of any other protective measures. If this password is important and critical, refusing to keep copies of it is actively hindering your chances of preserving it long-term. If your concern is that notes with it written on may be found, or a data breach might expose it, then you'd have to encode or otherwise obfuscate the copies, but you must have copies.
>>107853450Spread the password out across multiple pieces of paper and store them in different bank vaults for example.You got to weigh up the risks what would be worse? You losing access to that password or someone else gaining access to it.
>>107853712I don't want to trust (((banks))) though... Also I only have 1 house and I could be evicted without prior notice or the house could burn
>>107853503Through analyzing your mannerisms with the aid of a neural network I've managed to extract information about this password which, if its length and set of allowed symbols were to be revealed, should enable me to estimate 10%-50% of the password, assuming it's somewhere between a four digit code and 20 random characters.
>>107853712Ok, here's what I'm thinking of doing:- store it obfuscated in bitwarden- have 2FA enabled in bitwardenbut then if I ever lose my phone I lose access to bitwardennow what?
>>107853807Store them some other place with reasonable physical security then that you can find again. Honestly this anon probably has the right idea >>107853782. I can't come up with a more fool proof system that also is almost zero trust. Anything physical can be stolen especially if tied to your identity directly (if that is part of your threat scenario). Also assuming you lost your masterpassword you likely lost much more than just that. You can't reasonably assume you only forget your password but you'll remember that you buried a tin can with your passport at coordinates x,y that you can decrypt to your real password using rot-13 or whatever.
>>107853837I don't think I have to go that far as the other anon suggested, probably something like >>107853818is easier
>>107853818>but then if I ever lose my phone I lose access to bitwarden>now what?Setup the 2FA authenticator on two or more phones?
>>107853859I have multiple phones and I could do that, but then what would I do in case of a house or fire/theft/eviction?
