Thursday 8 September 2016

Meet The Sixth Grader Who Makes Money Selling Passwords

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Worried about someone guessing your password? If you are unable to come up with secure passwords, a 11 year old sixth grader from New York City has just the thing you need.

Mira Modi recently started a small business www.dicewarepasswords.com where she takes requests to generate six word diceware passpharases by hand.

If you aren’t aware, diceware is a well known system that has been around for decades to come up with secure passwords. It uses actual dice to come up with a truly random number that are then matched to a long list of English words.

Your ultimate password is just $2 away.

Read more http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/this-11-year-old-is-selling-cryptographically-secure-passwords-for-2-each/

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