[GNC] Recommendations for hosting gnucash file - Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Local server?

[Bruce Griffis]

I know this is veering off topic. My son just wrapped up his Bachelor's 
in Information Technology with a Cybersecurity focus. In one of the 
ybersecurity courses, we messed around on a project together. Kali Linux 
has some password cracking tools. We created a KeePass file with 
passwords and stored it on a thumb drive. Pointed the password cracker 
at it. It first did a dictionary attack, then started hashing passwords. 
First we set a pretty secure password and the password tool came back 
and told us how many years it would take to crack the password. Cool. 
Then we set a very stupid password the shows up in the dictionary. It 
was cracked in less than an hour.

So - KeePass is slick. But chose a really secure password. Don't chose a 
password that would show up in a password dictionary. And don't pick a 
short, simple password. A hacker could point a 'Nix machine with 
multiple GPUs at it and get in.


On 9/12/24 14:01, Mark at Lorimark wrote:
> use keepass - keep the database on your pc
>
> ~mark petryk
> ~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com
>
> On 9/12/24 12:57, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>> On 9/11/24 23:03, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>> BTW, who remembers a 1000 character password anyway!  I know, use a 
>> password manager -- but then you have to trust that it is secure.
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