Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: on Nostr: Lately I've been looking for more obscure words to add to my PassGen3 project. ...
Lately I've been looking for more obscure words to add to my PassGen3 project.
Grabbed a copy of Finnegan's Wake, replaced the space with a new line, removed all lines with non-alphabetic characters, sorted, uniquified, then removed any words found in /usr/share/dict/american-english for 38,278 words.
Next, use /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane to build trigrams, then create pronounceable pseudowords.
Curious if I can reach 131,072 unique words.
https://atoponce.github.io/passgen3/#passwords
Published at
2026-02-06 17:33:44 UTCEvent JSON
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