1996-07-05 - Re: Word lists for passphrases

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From: camcc@abraxis.com
To: William Knowles <erehwon@c2.org>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-07-05 16:29:06 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 00:29:06 +0800

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From: camcc@abraxis.com
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 00:29:06 +0800
To: William Knowles <erehwon@c2.org>
Subject: Re: Word lists for passphrases
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At 02:12 AM 7/5/96 -0700, you wrote:
:Greg,
:
:>Are there any publically available word lists which contain just about
:>every word in the English language?
:
:I would try this site out. It is very complete and should fill the bill.
:
:ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/
:
:Good Luck!
:
:
:-William Knowles
: erehwon@c2.org
: Finger for public key
:
I am not sure of your purposes, but I suggest you take a look at Arnold
Reinhold's Diceware page.

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.page.html

The list it contains certainly is not "every word in the English language,"
but the list he offers is large and well set up; I load mine from Wordpad.
It is part of a randomness system he espouses.

Alec 






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