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picking your password by literally rolling dice, because your brain is bad at being random.
means a method for generating strong passphrases by rolling physical dice to pick random words from a long wordlist.
from coined in 1995 by security researcher arnold reinhold, who built a 7776-word list (6^5 combinations) so anyone with five dice rolls could assemble a passphrase no algorithm could predict from your habits.
five rollsfive dice rolls picks one word from the list
word countstandard list holds exactly 7776 words
strength mathsix random words beat most cracking rigs for decades
human weaknesspeople-chosen passwords are shockingly guessable, dice are not