EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases | Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Create strong passphrases with EFF's new random number generators! This page includes information about passwords, different wordlists, and EFF's suggested method for passphrase generation. Use the directions below with any set of dice.And now, a message from internationally renowned security...
This is really good for encrypted content such as a hard drive, password vault or gpg key
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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
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).
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 :)
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.