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EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases | Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is really good for encrypted content such as a hard drive, password vault or gpg key

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you haven’t got any dice handy you can use random.org to generate the numbers for you. Or even select a set of words from the list

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

select a set of words from the list

I would be very careful doing this. It is very easy to introduce significant bias. Humans are terrible at picking random numbers.

If you can't find dice I would recommend:

Having a computer pick random items for you.
Renumber the list into binary and flip a coin 12 times for each word. (This results in a slightly shorter word list but should be string enough).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I meant use random.org select the words directly rather than go through the steps of getting numbers and then lookup.

I get the bias. A big weakness in the one time pads from WW2 was the word callers putting words back they thought were too frequent :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Shameless self-plug: if you want something without Cloudflare in front of it dicewa.re is nice. Keep in mind though that in general it is not recommended to rely on random number generators as their source of randomness cannot be verified.