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For more information on Diceware:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html">The Diceware Passphrase FAQ</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.wordlist.asc">Diceware word list</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.wordlist.asc">Original Diceware word list</a> (This implementation uses <a href="#wordlist">a different wordlist...</a>)</li>
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<li><a href="http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.txt">Diceware for Passphrase Generation and Other Cryptographic Applications</a></li>
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</ul>
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In fact, if you are nervous about generating a password on a website (even though the password is actually
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generated by Javascript in your browser), I would encourage you to download the source and run it locally.
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<a name="wordlist"></a>
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<h3>FAQ: Why did you change the wordlist?</h3>
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I used to use <a href="http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.wordlist.asc">the original wordlist</a>,
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but it contained a lot of symbols, punctuation, numbers, and 2 and 3 letter words. I wanted to try a different
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wordlist with longer words, no non-alphabetic characters, and words more commonly used. So I got
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<a href="https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english">the 10,000 most commonly used words</a> in the
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English language from <a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/info">Google's Trillion Word Corpus</a>.
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</p>
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I am always considering what words I use in the wordlist. With the current wordlist, I noticed that
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some words are really long, and this could also be an issue. I may investigate using a wordlist of
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shorter words in the future.
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<h3>Who built this? / Contact</h3>
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My name is <a href="http://www.dmuth.org/">Douglas Muth</a>, and I am a software engineer in Philadelphia, PA.
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