Passphrase Word Lists
Discussions center on using lists of common English words for secure passphrase generation, debating optimal wordlist sizes, vocabulary entropy, commonality rankings, and related tools.
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Would love a slider that would allow you to adjust the words allowed from 500 most common words in English to 10k most common words. Also, it would be great if you could compile a windows version.
does it use the most used words or least used?
Not possible currently. I'd like to find a source of "how common is this word" and add some kind of quantifiable number to each word. Perhaps I can scan existing open source text and just figure it out. On the backlog.
Examining the difficulty in precisely determining the number of words in the English language.
You can use a dictionary of the most common 10000 words, you'd still have loads of entropy.
Hint: it is a common word that is NOT on this list of 10000 words!https://www.mit.edu/~ecprice/wordlist.10000It is on this list of 20000 words:https://gist.github.com/eyturner/3d56f6a194f411af9f29df4c9d4...
Why not 4 words and a smaller, less error-prone word list?
Curious how much better your approach is versus fairly vanilla "most popular ngrams".
Especially since the average vocabulary is closer to 2^14
This allows more than the top 1000 words. The dictionaries clearly have 3000 lines