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Zune Pass expanding to U.K. and Europe, more nations get movie rentals and purchases (Download Squad)

Sep 22nd 2010 5:07AM James:
I'm a music fan, but I don't ever dream a system that sells overpriced music and restricts what I can do with the music I paid for.

Zune Pass expanding to U.K. and Europe, more nations get movie rentals and purchases (Download Squad)

Sep 21st 2010 3:11AM Zune? It still exists?

Diceware lets you generate random passphrases by rolling dice (Download Squad)

Aug 5th 2010 4:02PM Dude, please don't write crap about stuff you don't understand.

It doesn't matter that the word list is public, the point is that there are 7776 (6^5) possibilities for each word, generating a certain amount of randomness. You could replace the words with the corresponding numbers, but then they wouldn't be as easy to remember.

To add strength to the passphrase, you add words, as many as you like. 6 words equals 6^30 (a 24-digit number) possible combinations, which is plenty, and the "sentence" is a lot easier to remember than a corresponding sequence of random characters.

What you SHOULD have mentioned, instead, is that the javascript thingy is the weakest part of the system. To be secure, you're supposed to download the word list, roll the dice, and look up the words from the list. NOT generate your passwords with a random tool from the net.