An 11-year-old is selling cryptographically secure passwords for $2 each

Post by DonHopkins » Sun, Oct 25, 2015, 6:54 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #5

Roritharr wrote: post #2

I'm pretty sure the NSA on to her. Expect an NSL in a few days.

Containing loaded dice and an abridged password lookup table.

Post by readme » Sun, Oct 25, 2015, 9:16 PM UTC

readme wrote: post #6

>Don't buy this girl's passwords. I'm a 40 year old man and I can make you software that does this for free! Don't be fooled by this little fraud.

Post by hamhamed » Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 6:03 AM UTC

dikdik wrote: post #34

hamhamed wrote: post #14

This is obviously dumb and a problem nobody needs solving, but let's appreciate the fact than an 11 YO girl made press about her startup. I didn't even have a website at 11. She's going places..

>This is obviously dumb and a problem nobody needs solving So she'd fit in pretty well in SV :)

Post by raevilman » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 7:22 AM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #24

methehack wrote: post #10

I don't really understand why this is even theoretically supposed to be a good method of making a password. I wish the article tried to explain that. Here are a few questions I have: + I understand that the pseudo-randomness of a computer is often accidentally way less random than the programmer thinks. So, the by-hand nature of these passwords seems like an advantage, all else being equal. Right? + I thought real wo…

DICEWARE is a list of 7776 words. Each word is indexed by a five digit number. The five digit numbers are obtained by rolling 5 six sided dice. (11111 through to 66666). When it started a 5 word list was recommended. Now a 7 word list is recommended. Imagine a word list where all the words are lower case, and don't use any special characters. And our passphrase has 7 words, each separated by a single space, with no e…