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Random PIN

Every digit drawn separately from the browser’s cryptographic random source, so 0000 is exactly as likely as 4271 — which is the point, and also why you should not reject the one it gives you for looking too tidy.

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Why not to pick your own

People choose birthdays, repeated digits and patterns that walk across the keypad. A large share of every set of human-chosen four-digit PINs is covered by a very short list of guesses.

A drawn PIN has no such shape, so the only way in is to try all ten thousand — which is what the three-attempt lockout on your card is for.

Longer beats clever

If whatever you are protecting allows six digits rather than four, take them: it multiplies the guesses needed by a hundred and costs you two more presses.

Nothing is sent anywhere. The PIN is built in this tab and the short recent list stays in this browser.

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