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EFF Dice-Generated Passphrases | Electronic Frontier Foundation(www.eff.org)

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This is really good for encrypted content such as a hard drive, password vault or gpg key

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Doesn’t using a particular wordlist limits choice, gives attackers a wordlist to generate the password from

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Technically, yes. But the article already mentioned the amount of effort for the brute force to succeed (that is, practically never, if the phrase is truly random.)

But anyway. With regular passwords, the attackers already have a list: the alphabet plus numbers and symbols. Not really that different.

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