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Commit 9137f9a3 authored by ulif's avatar ulif
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Update docs: tell about new wordlist.

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...@@ -7,9 +7,17 @@ words used, the wordlists. ...@@ -7,9 +7,17 @@ words used, the wordlists.
`diceware` comes with some wordlists out-of-the-box, that might be a `diceware` comes with some wordlists out-of-the-box, that might be a
good choice for usual private use. good choice for usual private use.
By default we use the so-called `8k wordlist`_ from Mr. Reinhold as By default we use a hand-crafted wordlist provided by
published on http://diceware.com/. It contains 8,192 english words `@Heartsucker`_. It contains 8,192 english words and phrases. This list
and phrases. is based on the `diceware standard wordlist`_ and extended to offer
better memorizable words. Please see
https://github.com/heartsucker/diceware for details.
Apart from it we also provide the so-called `8k wordlist`_ from
Mr. Reinhold as published on http://diceware.com/. It also contains
8,192 english words and phrases and is something like the canonical
wordlist for use with binary-geared entities like computers or
nerds.
.. warning:: We do -- by default -- *not* use the `diceware standard .. warning:: We do -- by default -- *not* use the `diceware standard
wordlist`_ (which contains 7,776 words), because wordlist`_ (which contains 7,776 words), because
...@@ -146,5 +154,5 @@ automatically done by `diceware`. ...@@ -146,5 +154,5 @@ automatically done by `diceware`.
.. _`8k wordlist`: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware8k.txt .. _`8k wordlist`: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware8k.txt
.. _`diceware standard wordlist`: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.wordlist.asc .. _`diceware standard wordlist`: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.wordlist.asc
.. _`@Heartsucker`: https://github.com/heartsucker/
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