correct horse battery staple -- the sequel
So, I was thinking about this comic. Four random words makes a great password when there aren't any length limitations, but that's often not the case. The obvious workaround is to shorten "correct horse battery staple" to "corhorbatsta", but if you're not careful you could lose a lot of entropy that way.
Here is a comma-separated list of a little over 2000 words, culled from the top 14000 in wiktionary's film/TV script list. Each has a unique three-letter prefix (except for the ones that are shorter than three characters long, where you can pad them out to something unique), so if you pick four random words off the list and shorten them each to their first three letters, you'll get a 12-character password with 44 bits of entropy that should hopefully be reasonably easy to remember.
Some specific notes:
1) For words that contain apostrophes in their first three characters, the prefix is unique whether you include the apostrophe or not.
2) I've done some hand-culling, mostly to remove really weird stuff (like "qfxmjrie", which appears in the wiktionary word list and nowhere else on the internet; presumably someone's cat jumped on their keyboard while they were compiling the list or something) as well as some alternate spellings of things like "okay"; if I've missed anything like that, I'd like to know about it.
3) I have however left in words that are probably made the list mostly because they show up a lot in one specific show or movie ("lebowski", "vader", "doh", "jaffa", "ziegler") as well as proper names in general.
4) The list is in no way bowdlerized.
Here is a comma-separated list of a little over 2000 words, culled from the top 14000 in wiktionary's film/TV script list. Each has a unique three-letter prefix (except for the ones that are shorter than three characters long, where you can pad them out to something unique), so if you pick four random words off the list and shorten them each to their first three letters, you'll get a 12-character password with 44 bits of entropy that should hopefully be reasonably easy to remember.
Some specific notes:
1) For words that contain apostrophes in their first three characters, the prefix is unique whether you include the apostrophe or not.
2) I've done some hand-culling, mostly to remove really weird stuff (like "qfxmjrie", which appears in the wiktionary word list and nowhere else on the internet; presumably someone's cat jumped on their keyboard while they were compiling the list or something) as well as some alternate spellings of things like "okay"; if I've missed anything like that, I'd like to know about it.
3) I have however left in words that are probably made the list mostly because they show up a lot in one specific show or movie ("lebowski", "vader", "doh", "jaffa", "ziegler") as well as proper names in general.
4) The list is in no way bowdlerized.