11 year old Mira Modi, a New York City sixth grader, uses dice rolls to generate and sell cryptographically secure passwords for $2 apiece.
"This whole concept of making your own passwords and being super secure and stuff, I don’t think my friends understand,that, but I think it’s cool. I think (good passwords are) important. Now we have such good computers, people can hack into anything so much more quickly" she says.
The young entrepreneur behind dicewarepasswords.com, generates the passwords using a system called Diceware to create strings,of words that are easy to remember but difficult to crack. In Diceware, digits revealed by rolling of dices are matched to English alphabets listing and a random and unique password is created. Because every time a random pattern,is created, every password is unique and difficult to be decoded.
Mira is making about $12 per hour, one-third more than,New York State’s $8.75 minimum wage, selling strong passwords.
Each time an order comes in, she rolls the dice and looks,up the words in a printed copy of the Diceware word list. She writes the corresponding,password string onto a piece of paper and sends it by postal mail to the customer. Once her customers receive,their hand-written passphrases in the post, they are advised to make minor changes like,capitalizing letters or adding symbols to ensure their uniqueness.
source: indiatimes
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