Re: Word lists for passphrases

["Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>]

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On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:

> Ben Holiday wrote:
> > If you have access to a shell, and to the news spool, you can generate
> > some quick lists by hopping into the directory of any newsgroup that
> > interests you and doing:
> > 
> > cat * | tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq > my-big-ol-wordlist
> > 
> > With most unixes that will generate an alphabetized list of all the unique
> > words in your source text, converted to lowercase. I've had some problems
> > with tr on a few machines, however. Adding a '-c' after 'uniq' will tell
> > you how many times each word occured (useful for grepping out words that
> > appear too infrequently, or too frequently) .. 
> 
> Actually I am fairly sure that your selection of words will be mediocre
> at best. There are words (such as nethermost, insatiable, insufferable)
> that are almost never used in news.

According to Altavista:

nethermost   - 45
insatiable   - 200
insufferable - 200

I know I have too much free time.

- -- Mark

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