Mira Modi is the founder of Diceware, a company which creates strong passwords using random words and numbers resulting form dice rolls.

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Diceware is a well-known decades-old system for coming up with passwords. It involves rolling actual six-sided dice as a way to generate truly random numbers that are matched to a long list of English words. Those words are then combined into a non-sensical string ("ample banal bias delta gist latex") that exhibits true randomness and is therefore difficult to crack. The trick, though, is that these passphrases prove relatively easy for humans to memorize. ^[0]

Modi applied this technique to create a business, and she sells $8 secure passwords to customers around the world.

^[0]These are made into phrases and mailed to the customer.

She has been featured in Ars Technica and other high profile technology publications. ^[1]

Mira Modi hails from New York. ^[0] Her parents are from India.