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Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
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[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if you take four words of a 30000 word list (quick Google says that's the number of words an average person knows), that's still less bits of entropy than a 5 word diceware password (7776 word list). People are also really bad at randomness, so your own string of random words is likely going to be much worse.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for the explanation. What's diceware?

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the concept of literally using a die to choose with randomness (humans are terrible at trying to be random); a link with details is in a previous comment.