What I really need...

...is 1 password. Just one. 10 years back a password (on the net) was just a simple one. just choose a minimum of six letters and you are done and most of the sites followed similar password nomenclature. then came internet banking. Hacking. 128-bit encryption. Password's are now a nightmare.

On a given day I struggle with:

1. My windows login - A password that changes every 3 months and I can't use a password (which is close to a used password) thats been used in the last 18 months. Needs a capital letter, letters and numbers and a special symbol.

2. My emails - Have 4 a/c where the nomenclature is again different. Some want a capital letter, some want numbers, some want symbols.

3. My WEP Wi-Fi key - Needs 10 numbers

4. My activekey (for company wireless access) password - 4 numbers

4. My banks - Use 3 of mine and also monitor my dad's indian one. Some require 4 numbers and some require alphanumeric with symbol/s.

5. My auth-code for dial-ins - 6 digit number thats given to me with numbers preceding and succeeding that.

6. Newletters/News/Blogs - have their own password nomenclature - sometimes the login's a unique id and sometimes its an email (which one?)

Most of them have different logins and passwords. Some have numbers handed down which cant be changed. I wish I had a magic master-passkey which could give me access to all of these. One improvement is choosing a master passcode for firefox. Helps with all browser logins except banks. Maybe with a single masterkey its easy to access all info if its hacked. So biometrics could be the way to go in the future. Single access to things in life. Sigh!