password wallet

plural password wallets

1. computingAn application or mechanism which stores someone's passwords by encryption.First known use 2000

   The user must have access to the password wallet whenever she needs a password.

   2018, Matt Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science, Pearson Education, page 523

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   I believe Mozilla 5 (to be released as Netscape 6) also has a password "wallet" feature. Not sure about other vendors.

   2000 March 16, Peter W, “allowing directory access for authorized users”, in comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix (Usenet)

   Instead, the individual passwords are generated algorithmically from the master password and the sites’ names. As an advantage compared with a password wallet, nothing at all needs to be stored on the client machines. As a disadvantage, there is no easy way to change the master password.

   2007, Max Hailperin, Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction, Thomson Course Technology, page 405

   The two main things to remember with a password wallet is to have a very secure unique password or passphrase to access the wallet, and keep a secure record of the password or passphrase,[…]

   2017, Graham Day, Security in the Digital World: For the home user, parent, consumer and home office, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, page 111

   He showed Gemma the files to read and unlocked his password wallet. "The password wallet isn't very secure." "More secure than my physical diary which I'm sure has been checked.[…]"

   2017, Ray McCarthy, The Solar Alliance, Corvids Press, page 154

   In this section, we adapt our OTP wallet construction to the proof-of-stake setting (the password wallet can also be adapted likewise).

   2023, Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Lewis Gudgeon, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Daniel Perez Hernandez, Sam Werner, Thomas Haines, Aleksander Essex, Andrea Bracciali, Massimiliano Sala, editors, Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2022 International Workshops: CoDecFin, DeFi, Voting, WTSC, Grenada, May 6, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, page 632