Just a few weeks ago, a 11 year-old girl Mira Modi started a business of selling six-word Diceware passwords.She generates the passwords then write them by hand and sends by postal mail.
She operates her business through dicewarepasswords.com. For those who don't know, Diceware is a method for creating passwords, passphrases, and other cytographic variables using an ordinary die from a pair of dice as a hardware random number generator. In the process, a normal six-dice is used to generate random numbers that are matched with the letters of the English alphabet to generate words.These words are combined into a string of words that doesn't make sense. Hence, it's very difficult to crack these passwords. But, suprisingly these passphrase are relatively easy to remember
Mira is the daughter of Julia Angwin, a privacy-focused journalist and writer of her book Dragnet Nation.During the research work for her book, Angwin was employed to generate Diceware passwords. Later, Mira decided to turn it into a small business but her in-person sales were low. So, she decided to take the business online.
Mira doesn't stores any password she generates on any computer.She send the passwords to the customers by the US Postal Mail, which cant be opened by the government without a search warrant.
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