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@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ I like passwords that I can remember.
<h3>I can't believe you're sending passwords over the Internet!</h3>
I'm not. Passwords are generated within your browser and do not leave it (unless you copy them out yourself).
<a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/TlK63Euc9KArc2a0kEw/giphy.gif">Chill</a>. I'm not. Passwords are generated within your browser and do not leave it (unless you copy them out yourself).
<h3>FAQ: Are these dice rolls cryptographically secure?</h3>
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<a name="wordlist"></a>
<h3>FAQ: Why did you change the wordlist?</h3>
<h3>FAQ: Can you tell me more about the list of words?</h3>
I used to use <a href="http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.wordlist.asc">the original wordlist</a>,
but it contained a lot of symbols, punctuation, numbers, and 2 and 3 letter words. I wanted to try a different
wordlist with longer words, no non-alphabetic characters, and words more commonly used. So I got
<a href="http://norvig.com/ngrams/">Peter Norvig's</a> list of <a href="http://norvig.com/ngrams/count_1w.txt"
>the 1/3rd million most frequently used words</a> and selected the 7,776 most common words between 4 and 7
characters in length.
>the 1/3rd million most frequently used words</a>.
<h3>FAQ: How many dice are rolled per word?</h3>
The default is 5 dice, which allows for 7,776 different words per roll. While I have some debug hooks
in the code so that you can run Diceware with <a href="?dice=6">6 dice per word</a> and
<a href="?dice=7">7 dice per word</a> (for 46,655 and 279,935 possible words, respectively), the words
used become more obscure, which makes them more difficult to remember, so I'm not entirely sure that is a good thing.
But for now, the functionality is there, if there is a desire for it.
<h3>FAQ: Why did you change the wordlist?</h3>
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I am always considering what words I use in the wordlist. I may opt to use shorter words in the future.