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provided by Arnold G. Reinhold, which will be used by default and
contains 8192 different words.
If you do not like the wordlist provided, you can use your own one. Any
`INFILE` provided will be parsed line by line and each line considered
a possible word. For instance::
Apart from that `diceware` is packaged with the "original" 7776 word
list provided by Mr. Reinhold. You can enable a certain (installed)
wordlist with the ``-w`` option::
$ diceware --wordlist en_orig
YorkNodePrickEchoToriNiobe
See ``diceware --help`` for a list of all installed wordlists.
If you do not like the wordlists provided, you can use your own
one. Any `INFILE` provided will be parsed line by line and each line
considered a possible word. For instance::
$ echo -e "hi\nhello\n" > mywordlist.txt
$ diceware mywordlist.txt
......@@ -163,15 +172,8 @@ With filename ``-`` you can pipe in wordlists::
HiHiHelloHiHiHello
In custom wordlists we take each line for a valid word and ignore
empty lines (i.e. lines containing whitespace characters only).
You can also pick one of the wordlists packaged with `diceware` (which
is, what we do by default) using ``-w``::
$ diceware --wordlist en_orig
YorkNodePrickEchoToriNiobe
These terms come from the original diceware.com wordlist for dice.
empty lines (i.e. lines containing whitespace characters only). Oh,
and we handle even PGP-signed wordlists.
What is it good for?
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