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--- pwg [2026/03/30 02:20] – steve
+++ pwg [2026/03/30 13:15] (current) – steve
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 grep -E '^[A-Za-z]{3,5}$' /usr/share/dict/words >> pwg
 </code>
-On my system, that produces a list of 10756 words, the password 'Puff%Bass0CATV_Claim6Sent' generated above has 94 bits of entropy, and is one of 10756 x 10 x 10756 x 10 x 10756 x 10 x 10756 x 10 x 10756. That's one password out of 1.4396*10^24. At 100 guesses per second, that's 456 trillion years if I did the math right.
+On my laptop at home, that produces a list of 10756 words, the password 'Puff%Bass0CATV_Claim6Sent' generated above has 94 bits of entropy, and is one of 10756 x 10 x 10756 x 10 x 10756 x 10 x 10756 x 10 x 10756. That's one password out of 1.4396*10^24. At 100 guesses per second, that's 456 trillion years if I did the math right.
+\\
+On a system at work, where I installed a larger dictionary, it's 42245 words!
+<code bash>
+## Type ↓ ↓ ↓, User stejon-admin in ~ on lnxv001 ##
+ls -Al /usr/share/dict/words ; sudo dnf whatprovides /usr/share/dict/linux.words
+lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2025-11-18+20:24:18 /usr/share/dict/words -> linux.words
+Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:23 ago on Mon 30 Mar 2026 09:10:52 AM EDT.
+words-3.0-39.el9.0.1.noarch : A dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory
+Repo        : @System
+Matched from:
+Filename    : /usr/share/dict/linux.words
+</code>