From 8a75937ceff536c69a64eb8e1fbaee4f6baae990 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ulif <uli@gnufix.de>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 05:29:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.
Tell about the new default wordlist.
---
README.rst | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 39072dc..4878eef 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -79,8 +79,7 @@ Once installed, use ``--help`` to list all available options::
-w NAME, --wordlist NAME
Use words from this wordlist. Possible values: `en',
`en_eff', `en_orig', `en_securedrop'. Wordlists are
- stored in the folder displayed below. Default:
- en_securedrop
+ stored in the folder displayed below. Default: en_eff
-v, --verbose Be verbose. Use several times for increased verbosity.
--version output version information and exit.
@@ -167,10 +166,13 @@ rolls required.
We support even sources of randomness from other packages. See the
`documentation <https://diceware.readthedocs.io/>`_ for more details.
-`diceware` comes with an English wordlist provided by Heartsucker,
-which will be used by default and contains 8192 different words. This
-list is based off the original diceware list written by Arnold G.
-Reinhold.
+`diceware` comes with an English wordlist provided by the EFF_, which will be
+used by default and contains 7776 (=6^6) different words. This list is stored
+as ``en_eff``.
+
+Additionally `diceware` comes with an English wordlist provided by Heartsucker,
+which contains 8192 different words. This list is based off the original
+diceware list written by Arnold G. Reinhold.
Both the original and 8k diceware wordlists by Mr. Reinhold are provided.
You can enable a certain (installed) wordlist with the ``-w`` option::
@@ -208,7 +210,7 @@ directory. This file could look like this::
specials = 2
delimiter = "MYDELIMITER"
randomsource = "system"
- wordlist = "en"
+ wordlist = "en_securedrop"
The options names have to match long argument names, as output by
``--help``. The values set must meet the requirements valid for
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