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It’s not that most people don’t know how they *should* manage their passwords. It’s common knowledge that you shouldn’t write down your passwords in plain site. We’ve heard that you should not reuse the same password for all of the websites you have accounts with. But when you have hundreds of website accounts, many with different password requirements, it’s easy to throw caution to the wind.

However, there are a number of effective, and convenient, methods for creating rock-solid passwords and for keeping them safe.

Creating Strong Passwords

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TrueCrypt Now Available for Mac, Too [Featured Download]: “

Windows, Mac and Linux: Our favorite solution for keeping your private files safe, sound, and hidden—TrueCrypt—is now available for Mac as well as Windows and Linux. The just-released version 5.0 of TrueCrypt boasts some impressive features in addition to the Mac version, like a Linux GUI, and the:

Ability to encrypt a system partition/drive (i.e. a partition/drive where Windows is installed) with pre-boot authentication. Anyone who wants to gain access and use the system, read and write files, etc., needs to enter the correct password each time before the system starts.

Since Mac’s built-in system encryption feature FileVault didn’t impress me much, TrueCrypt for Mac is very exciting. TrueCrypt is a free download for all three platforms, and if you haven’t tried it yet, here’s how to encrypt your data with TrueCrypt. Thanks, Daniel!

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(Via Lifehacker.)

TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive: “A funny little man writes ‘The popular open source privacy tool, TrueCrypt, has just received a major update. The most exciting new feature provides the ability to encrypt an entire drive, prompting the user for a password during boot up; this makes TrueCrypt the perfect tool for non-technical laptop users (the kind who are likely to lose all of that sensitive customer data). The Linux version receives a GUI and independence from the kernel internals, and a Mac version is at last available too.’

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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(Via Slashdot.)