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Subject:    [ISN] This 11-year-old is selling cryptographically secure passwords for $2 each
From:       InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date:       2015-10-26 9:18:16
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By Cyrus Farivar
Ars Technica
Oct 25, 2015

We now live in a world where a New York City sixth grader is making money 
selling strong passwords. Earlier this month, Mira Modi, 11, began a small 
business at dicewarepasswords.com, where she generates six-word Diceware 
passphrases by hand.

Diceware is a well-known decades-old system for coming up with passwords. 
It involves rolling actual six-sided dice as a way to generate truly 
random numbers that are matched to a long list of English words. Those 
words are then combined into a non-sensical string ("ample banal bias 
delta gist latex") that exhibits true randomness and is therefore 
difficult to crack. The trick, though, is that these passphrases prove 
relatively easy for humans to memorize.

"This whole concept of making your own passwords and being super secure 
and stuff, I don't think my friends understand that, but I think it's 
cool," Modi told Ars by phone.

Modi is no ordinary sixth-grader, either. She's the daughter of Julia 
Angwin, a veteran privacy-minded journalist at ProPublica and author of 
Dragnet Nation.

[...]



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