{"id":7390,"date":"2018-08-05T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2018-08-05T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:56:19","slug":"diceware-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7390","title":{"rendered":"Diceware Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea of choosing a list of common words as a password is fairly common and can<\/i> lead to very secure passwords if the selection process is done randomly. The idea entered popular culture with the famous XKCD correct horse battery staple<\/a> cartoon but is really much older. One of the first systematic ways of choosing the words is Diceware<\/a>, a method that uses a die and a list of 1776 words. Each word takes 5 rolls of the die (or a single roll of 5 dice) but even a 5 or 6 word password can be chosen reasonably quickly. <\/p>\n

I’ve written about Diceware many times<\/a> in the past and have even provided two computer implementations, one in C<\/a> and another in Lisp<\/a>. Both use cryptographically secure random number generation and should be at least as secure as rolling a die. <\/p>\n

Over at <Computerphile><\/a>, Mike Pound has a video that explains and demonstrates Diceware<\/a>. He shows how a password is picked and explains why the result is secure. That security remains intact even if an attacker knows you are using a Diceware-like scheme and has a list of the candidate words. <\/p>\n

The video is just short of 11 minutes so you’ll probably have to schedule some time or fit it into a coffee break. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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