From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 17:19:55 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Word lists for passphrases
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At 5:00 AM 7/5/96, AwakenToMe@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 96-07-04 16:37:24 EDT, fair@clock.org (Erik E. Fair)
>writes:
>
>>You could just snarf up a week's worth of netnews...
>>
>>        Erik

>There are many out there. And I doubt the net would have anything like
>Antidisestablishmentarianism heheh
>I believe it was an 8 meg wordlist I got off the net. Just use the good ole
>search utils!!

The standard "large data base" of modern American English words is the
"Brown corpus." Search the Web for this and you'll get a few hundred hits,
including some downloadable files.

--Tim May


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