Re: Word lists for passphrases

You could just snarf up a week's worth of netnews...

        Erik

# From: "Erik E. Fair" (Time Keeper) <fair@clock.org>
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# You could just snarf up a week's worth of netnews...

This is trival and, in practice, work great.    
Feed it mail, news, man pages, etc.  
You can cascade results to eliminate huge sorts.
The final grep is my hueristic for english; you can delete or modify it.
Happy hacking.
	strick



cat "$@" |
	tr A-Z a-z |
	grep -v "^message-id:" |
	grep -v "^received:" |
	tr -c "a-zA-Z" "
" |
	grep -v "^$" |
	sort |
	uniq |
	grep -v "[bcdfghjklmnpqrtvwxz][bcdfghjklmnpqrtvwxz][bcdfghjklmnpqrtvwxz][bcdfghjklmnpqrtvwxz]"