Password managers?

[jotathought]

I’ve not used one yet so I don’t know. I never actually used the keychain but I can see what it’s trying to do when it suggests a password.

On apple, if you get a password box on screen, apple pops up a menu asking if you want to create your own password, or let apple keychain create it for you, the passwords look to be pretty strong but not knowing how secure it is, I never proceeded to let it do its thing. I just always told it that I wanted to create my own.

I looked it up .. the Apple Keychain uses single-key approach, AE5 256 bit encryption for information at rest, and TLS to encrypt data in transit. Keep in mind, it's pretty integrated into the Apple ecosystem, and requires additional steps if you want to retrieve passwords for a non-Apple device.