The EFF has published a great set of diceware wordlists and an informative diceware page. The wordlist can also be found in the EFF's eff_diceware repo on GitHub from which this repository is forked.
This repository contains a modified wordlist based on the EFF's 5-die "large" list.
The customized list removes:
- hard-to-spell words,
- words with homophones,
- words that could make for unpleasant, unsavory, or politically insensitive passphrases,
- some compound words that might be difficult to remember as a single "word,"
- words with common alternative spellings,
- words containing non-alphabetic characters, and
- other words that seem out of place in a wordlist.
In place of the removed words, I've added mostly:
- names of US states,
- names of US and global cities,
- car makes and models,
- animals, and
- foods.
eff_large_wordlist.txt is in the original format of the repository, and is well-suited for use with dice to create passphrases.
eff_large_wordlist-2019.txt has an additional numbered column, and this particular file will not be updated in the future -- making it useful for encrypting a passphrase with one time pad as outlined in a future blog post. (If this particular URL/filename is noted with the encrypted passphrase, you can be sure you're decrypting the passphrase correctly.)
The wordlist file is distributed by the EFF under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
All other content in this repository is open source under the terms of the MIT License.