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Diceware is not suitable for general use, because it is important to have a unique password on every service. That practice isolates you from the damage of sites like LinkedIn and Dropbox being compromised.

If you use diceware for everything you've got to remember all of those unique passphrases which defeats the whole point of diceware.

Where diceware shines is in creating a master password, which is explained in the guide.

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