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by nullc 490 days ago
That dictionary normally has a lot of rather obscure/long/hard to remember stuff. If you 'reroll' until you get a password you like better you're taking an unknown hit to the entropy of the results.

It's better to use a dictionary where every word is acceptable and commit yourself to taking the first result or best of two (confining the human-selection entropy loss).

Though I don't have any suggestion for a suitable one that is just a wget away.

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> Though I don't have any suggestion for a suitable one that is just a wget away.

EFF wordlists: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-p...