Re: Manually generating a key with dice

Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:

Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>

On 3/3/2024 10:38 AM, Stefan Claas wrote:

Hi all,
>
is there a common practice, all agree on, to generate
pads (numeric or alphabetic), with two six-sided dices?
>
I saw this here and I like it, but wonder if there is an
agreed standard for rolling two dices, to obtain digits,
from 0-25, or letters from A-Z.
>
<https://github.com/sa6mwa/krypto431?tab=readme-ov-file#manually-generating-a-key-with-dice>
>
I ask, because I have now the Diana Cryptosystem in GO and if
users would like to manually generate the pads, for it.  I
normally use wooden tiles, for the letters.

>
Might as well bust out some D&D die.  Hex die is a fun one.  Put a
lot of hex die in a box.  Shake it up....  Cut a little hole in the
box and let out one die at a time....  ;^)

>
How does a hex die look like? I have not found any reference, via
Google.

 If Chris means a 16 sided die, hen something approximating these
images:
 https://www.diceemporium.com/product-category/16-sided-dice/