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Instruction on how to create a strong passwords or passphrase with the Diceware system.
- Roll 5 dice at once. Read and write down the results from left to right. If you have only one dice roll it 5 times.
- Your result looks something like this: 2, 4, 6, 2, 3.
- Open the EFF Diceware wordlist and find the corresponding word to that number. Don’t use the find function, scroll.
- Repeat the process until you have a total of six words. The final result will be something like this: 24623 61262 66453 64343 56261 54552 (effort superglue work unpack steam skirt).
- Come up with your own mnemonic to remember your phrase. Something like: The effort to superglue me to work is to unpack and steam my skirt.
Your passphrase is one of 221073919720733357899776 (or about 2⁷⁷) alternatives. Meaning national intelligence agencies who have the power to process 100 trillion and probably even more combinations per second could crack that phrase in about 24 years or less.
Recommended software
1Password is available for macOS & iOS.
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Recommended reading
“The art of Deception” is a great read by the world’s most infamous hacker. Just as you should read the “Art of War” this book is not intended as an instruction guide but as a source of knowledge so you won’t fall for the tactics described in great detail.
