From: Erle Greer <erleg@sdinter.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:57:28 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Word lists for passphrases [vocabularypunks]
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At 01:18 PM 7/9/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark M <markm@voicenet.com> writes:
>
>Mark> According to Altavista:
>
>Mark> nethermost   - 45
>Mark> insatiable   - 200
>Mark> insufferable - 200
>
>Mark> I know I have too much free time.
>
>According to Dejanews:
>  Individual word hit counts                                                 
>     * nethermost: 185
>     * insatiable: 1191
>     * insufferable: 752
>     * antidisestablishmentarianism: 142   :-)
>
>-- 
>steve@miranova.com baur
>Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour.
>Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone
>except you in November.

Ok fellas, I am usually against senseless arguing.  Especially over a
subject that certain individuals shouldn't even had wasted the time to reply
to if they couldn't give a sh*t about it in the first place.  Therefore, I
assume that they are arguing JUST to argue, but they wait until a topic pops
up that they have some background in, therefore standing a chance of
winning.  Well, you already lost when you assumed that something worthwhile
or useful would come of your negative responses.  Oh, excuse me; you did get
replies to your responses, so I guess your investment did turn a profit.

Well, stooping even further into your realm, I too visited my trusty search
utility, MetaCrawler.  It too found all four of your words.  I decided to
pluck five odd-looking words from my MAINLIST.TXT produced by Word-List
Builder.  The list is COMPLETELY untouched or altered by human hands.  I ran
all five of them through MetaCrawler and your DejaNews (ultra list source)
and here are the results:

Word                 MetaCrawler DejaNews
-------------------- ----------- --------
DisplayWorkstationSe 0           0
SETUPPP              0           0
TmpDirPad            0           0
dsRegSetPads         0           0
TotalSwapReqdFromINF 0           0

(These words were all found in the first 1% of my list and then I got bored.)

Logic tells me that a word that can be found ANYWHERE with a
publicly-available search utility would not be the IDEAL passphrase to lock
up my secrets.

Well, now that I know where YOU will be assembling your list from, I can
rest assured to pull one from my list instead.

-fin