password wallet

English

Noun

password wallet (plural password wallets)

1. (computing, cryptography) An application or mechanism which stores someone's passwords by encryption. [from 2000]
   • 2000 March 16, Peter W, “allowing directory access for authorized users”, in comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix‎ (Usenet):

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

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

     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.

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

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

     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. […] "

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

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

   • 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:

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