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