Customizable Word List

[ghost]

It would be nice if I could plug my own word list (+100k words) into this program, but I can't because the word list is hard coded into the program.

[defuse]

What dictionary do you want to use? The reason I use the 6k words dictionary is that all the bigger dictionaries I could find have un-memorable words, you'll get things like

box.reductionistic.pessimism.contorted.fly

whose time-it-takes-to-type versus security is low. This forces you to run passgen over and over again until you get words you like, which reduces security as much as using a shorter wordlist. If you have a bigger dictionary that's still usable I'll probably use that one instead.

[defuse]

Oops, hit the close button by mistake.

[defuse]

(Oh yeah, and words that are hard to spell. Those are annoying.)

[ghost]

Gutenberg.org has a pretty massive free +300k word list. I think it's public domain, but I would double check to make sure.

I wrote a little python script to strip out words that are too long or too short. It not perfect, but it helps. I sent the .zip file in an e-mail. With a little fiddling, it's surprisingly effective.

Max: 10, Min: 6 --> ~100k results. Some of the words are a wee bit esoteric, but it's tolerable.
Max: 8, Min: 4 --> ~50k results. If min >= 4, you strip out most of the junk words.

[ghost]

Update: I checked the license. It looks like it's public domain.

[ghost]

Alternatively, http://correcthorsebatterystaple.net/ has a remarkably memorable word list that's free of junk words and chalked full of normal vocabulary. Unfortunately, it's only 2,228 words long.
https://github.com/jvdl/CorrectHorseBatteryStaple/blob/master/data/wordlist.txt

Their "jargon" wordlist has +9,000 words and still doesn't have too much junk in it.
https://github.com/jvdl/CorrectHorseBatteryStaple/blob/master/data/jargon.txt