Diceware

[Ryan Malayter]

Diceware uses 7736 distinct English words of 5 characters or less.
Choosing one of these words randomly represents 13 bits of entropy. If
you choose, say 5 of these words at random for your passphrase, you have
yourself a strong 65-bit passphrase that's easy to remember, if not so
fun to type.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.toronto.edu]=20
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 2:47 PM
To: Ed Suominen
Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: Re: Diceware



I notice that there's a lot of repetition.  How many distinct sylables
does the system use?

Could I get a text version of the list of sylables?
I want to give it a try.

Daniel.


On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Ed Suominen wrote:

> See http://eepatents.com/privaria/worksheet.pdf for a random password
> selection system that, IMHO, is far easier to use than diceware.
(That's
> why I thought it up...)
>
> /--- Ed Suominen ------------------------------\
> |> Registered Patent Agent
> |> Independent Inventor of EE Technology
> |> Author, PRIVARIA Secure Networking Suite
> ||  Freely available at http://www.privaria.org
> \--- http://www.eepatents.com -----------------/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.toronto.edu]=3D20
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:37 PM
> To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Subject: Diceware
>
> Thanks for the recommendation of Diceware.  It's a very neat system.
> I'll use it.
>
> The website recommends using dice instead of a computer program unless
> you know what you're doing.  I think I know what I'm doing (and I
don't have
> the patience for generating several passwords using dice).
>
> On a Linux box, I am using /dev/random as a source of random bits,
which
> I turn into digits with Perl's unpack().  I chop off all digits
outside
> the range [1-6] and use those to get the words.
>
> Can anyone detect any error here?
>
> Daniel.
>
>
>
>
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