DICEWARE is a list of 7776 words. Each word is indexed by a five digit number. The five digit numbers are obtained by rolling 5 six sided dice. (11111 through to 66666).

When it started a 5 word list was recommended. Now a 7 word list is recommended.

Imagine a word list where all the words are lower case, and don't use any special characters. And our passphrase has 7 words, each separated by a single space, with no extra special characters or numbers. And also our attacker knows our wordlist and our passphrase rules.

We have a phrase that is one of 7776^7 different phrases. This list is too long for a dictionary attack.

It's really weak if we have 4 words or less.

Ideally you'd have a long strong passphrase to open a password safe.

It'd be great if people could invent really good tokens instead of passwords.