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Re: OT: Passphrase generator



Reply to note from Bob Newell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:23:05 -1000

Bob,

> This is quite nice and highly useful.

Thanks for the kind words.

> You may not be willing to release source code, but in the Linux
> world, providing a source distribution is common.

I'm happy to release the source code, with one caveat: The internal database of 700,000+ words and
phrases is something I cobbled together from various sources, not all of which are publicly
available. I have no pride of authorship, but I do hesitate to release into the world something that
might be a resource for would-be password crackers. So I've decided to post the Zig source along
with a smaller database, based on a public resource (https://www.wordgamedictionary.com/english-word-list/download/english.txt)
that is a subset of the original database. You can download the source code here:

https://ammaze.net/xywwweb/dls/frase-source.zip

The zip file includes executables compiled with the smaller database. The program output is still
quite serviceable, I think.

The smaller database is open-source, a text file consisting of words/phrases separated by vertical
piping symbols "|". You can add to it as you see fit. One obvious way to expand it would
be to add words and phrases from languages other than English.

-- 
Carl Distefano
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