This is really good for encrypted content such as a hard drive, password vault or gpg key

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    9 days ago

    select a set of words from the list

    I would be very careful doing this. It is very easy to introduce significant bias. Humans are terrible at picking random numbers.

    If you can’t find dice I would recommend:

    1. Having a computer pick random items for you.
    2. Renumber the list into binary and flip a coin 12 times for each word. (This results in a slightly shorter word list but should be string enough).
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      9 days ago

      I meant use random.org select the words directly rather than go through the steps of getting numbers and then lookup.

      I get the bias. A big weakness in the one time pads from WW2 was the word callers putting words back they thought were too frequent :)