Tuesday 30 October 2012

Securing Email accounts by Hashing passwords

In this blog post i am going to describe how to use hash passwords for logging into your Mail accounts.

Whats the importance of it..?

Well we all know that every single user may have single or multiple accounts with same or different passwords. Remembering different passwords for different accounts could be a challenging thing for users.

By using the following technique user needs remember single masterpassword for logging in to different accounts. So what do you need..?

Step 1: Either a bookmark or just a bash script

Using Bookmark. http://www.hashapass.com/en/bookmarklet.html




  Step 2: Just drag the bookmark to your bookmarks

  Step 3: Now open your gmail account and goto password change settings

  Step 4: Enter your current password



 Step 5:Now just click the hashpass bookmark and enter Parameter and masterpassword

About Parameter : Right now i am using gmail. So based on my requirement i have assigned my parameter as

"gmail"

About Master Password : Its the single password string which you need to remember




After entering it in both fields just save it and get log-out.


Now just open your email account after providing the username click on the Hashapass bookmark

Now enter the parameter value and password. And click on login. That's it.



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