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Comment on Ask HN: How'd you manage the password managers' master password?

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It usually shows up as stars so I don't need to worry about other people seeing it, see: hunter2

Jokes aside, I memorize my password manager's master password, and have it written down in a notebook but in a different glyph set (Idk the scientific name). It's not ciphered or anything so can be decoded, but the chances of somebody recognizing Elian script are fairly low, I think, and recognizing something like Royal House of Riftgard script even lower. And if you use something like Elian script it can be obfuscated further by stylistic alterations. That, combined with a rotating cipher, even something like rot13, is probably enough to defeat all but the most determined attackers, in which case I'll have bigger things to worry about, like the XKCD wrench (https://xkcd.com/538/)

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