Meet Mira Modi, a sixth grade student who has the best idea for a business. Using dice rolls, this girl generates and sells cryptographically secure passwords to customers for $2 apiece.
This New Yorker is an Indian-origin girl who manages her own website known as Diceware, a platform where she makes secure passphrases. Diceware is a well-known system used for making passwords. It works on rolling a dice to reveal different combinations of numbers, which are then matched to a list of English words.
These words are in turn strung along a completely random pattern that makes the resultant password a difficult one to decode. Also, these passwords aren't difficult for users to remember.
While speaking to 'Ars Technica' Mira said, "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."
Mira first began making passwords when her mother, Julia Angwin who is a reputed journalist and author of the book Dragnet Nation, employed her daughter to use diceware passphrases as part of research for her book.
Since then Mira has been rolling a dice with a Diceware word list handy by her side. She post-mails the passwords to her customers after writing them down on paper.
"I think (good passwords are) important. Now we have such good computers, people can hack into anything so much more quickly," said Mira.
(With inputs from PTI)
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