"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." | ||
| --The Shakyamuni Buddha | ||
In this chapter, I will show you one last project. If you've worked well in the rest of the book, this example should be easy. I tried my best to craft it in a way that it will neither be too hard for those who have only read the book, nor too simple for those who also took the time to work on the examples, and maybe have read up on the links and topics I suggested.
One problem that we all have these days is remembering passwords. We have passwords for everything: websites, phones, cards, bank accounts, and so on. The amount of information we have to memorize is just too much, so many people end up using the same password over and over again. This is very bad, of course, so at some point, tools were invented to alleviate this problem. One of these tools is called KeepassX, and basically it works like this: you start the software by setting up a special password called master password. Once inside, you store a record for each password you need to memorize, for example, your e-mail account, the bank website, credit card information, and so on. When you close the software, it encrypts the database used to store all that information, so that the data can only be accessed by the owner of the master password. Therefore, kind of in a Lord of The Rings fashion, by just owning one password, you rule them all.