The Last Password You’ll Ever Need To Remember

The Last Password You'll Ever Need To Remember

That’s the promise from the folks at LastPass.com about their free password manager software, because it stores all your passwords behind one master password.

After garnering a string of awards and high recommendations over recent years, LastPass was selected for the 2010 Best Privacy/Security Add-On in the Reader’s Choice Awards at About.com.

LastPass is designed to securely store all your login information so that includes usernames and passwords for all the sites you visit. In addition, there is a Secure Notes facility for keeping other confidential notes under password protection.

Remembering long passwords is such a problem for most people that they resort to passwords that are easy to remember, which means they are also easy to guess, which means they are not all that secure.

As LastPass.com says, “We go online to connect with people, explore, shop and learn. We certainly don’t go online to fuss with passwords or risk our privacy, personal or financial information. Designed by web enthusiasts and skilled application developers, LastPass was created to make the online experience easier and safer for everyone.”

It does this by creating random, non-guessable passwords which users can accept, or they can create their own. Either way, you no longer need to remember your passwords. Just login and let LastPass do all the heavy lifting.

The software is free, coming from a dedicated bunch of programmers who do not charge for the use of their skills. They are part of a strong and growing open source movement. Source here refers to source code. And code is what makes websites in particular and the internet in general work as well as it does.

So technically, what is LastPass?

It’s a multi-platform password manager, meaning it works on all computers — Macs, Windows and Linux.

It is web based, so you can use it on any computer you’re sitting at. You just login with your LastPass master password. That’s the last password you’ll ever have to remember, according to their slogan. Because it is web-based, any password changes you make on your work computer, for example, will be synced up on your home computer.

LastPass encrypts all of your individual passwords then stores them behind one master password. When you type in that master password, LastPass can automatically log you in to any web site you visit with your saved login credentials.

For more information and to grab their free download, visit www.lastpass.com