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by magicconch 1519 days ago
Also take a look at the EFF’s wordlists [1] as an alternative to the Diceware list. Quoting from their blog post, here are some issues with the Diceware list that they have resolved: - It contains many rare words such as buret, novo, vacuo

- It contains unusual proper names such as della, ervin, eaton, moran

- It contains a few strange letter sequences such as aaaa, ll, nbis

- It contains some words with punctuation such as ain't, don't, he'll

- It contains individual letters and non-word bigrams like tl, wq, zf

- It contains numbers and variants such as 46, 99 and 99th

- It contains many vulgar words

- Diceware passwords need spaces to be correctly decoded, e.g. in and put are in the list as well as input

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-p...

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Thanks for the link, but it's broken, should be: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-p...

I think you copy-pasted it from elsewhere on HN, causing the end to be cut off.