Re: [Cfrg] Word-lists for Diffie-Hellman and Fingerprints

Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> Wed, 30 August 2017 05:24 UTC

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From: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:24:00 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Word-lists for Diffie-Hellman and Fingerprints
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not re-use the list of words from appendix A of RFC 1751?


I can't give a concrete answer, however as someone who's a bit obsessive
about comparing various wordlists, granted in an entirely ad hoc way of
generating random samples and making a more or less ad hoc judgement about
how often I was presented random samples I liked, I really like the EFF's
(English) wordlist, and am not a super big fan of RFC 1751. Granted that's
a completely non-quantitative opinion, more like one based in aesthetics.
I'm sure YMMV...

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Tony Arcieri