There are a few popular word lists in use today, the king of the bunch seemingly the EFF long list, which contains 7,776 words.ġPassword has their own word list for when users randomly generate password. It feels particularly human, and maybe Didionesque. As a journalist, I particularly enjoy that this is thanks in part to humankind’s ability to construct and recall narratives. To me, in an age where computers are doing more and more things that people thought they could never do (for example dominate the game of go) this seemed to be a neat example of humans, even young ones, still being able to coolly triumph over machine in an arena where it might seem like computers would have an advantage. Turns out a string of randomly chosen words can be difficult for a computer to guess, but still easy for a person to remember, especially if we use a bit of story-telling. Even the methods of creating these passwords, notably using dice, fascinates me. A few years ago I got interested in passphrases (as passwords) and the word lists used to generate them.
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