Add support for wordlists in other languages

[simonft]

I've been working on https://github.com/simonft/phrasebook and have been talking with @drebs about using diceware as the backend for it. One thing I want to add to phrasebook is the ability to choose from wordlists in multiple languages. Is adding wordlists in other languages something you'd consider adding (or allowing someone else to add) to diceware as well?

[ulif]

By all means, yes! Non-english wordlists would be really nice!

Of course, if you have your own wordlist, you can store it in the diceware wordlist dir as wordlist_CC.txt with CC being a country code like fr, pt, or de. The wordlist will then be used when you call diceware -w CC.

If you want to share your wordlist with others, please do not hesitate to do a pull request.

I recommend, however, to check your wordlist with the diceware-list tools I use for exact that purpose. This package contains a few little scripts, one of them, wlflakes scanning existing lists for problems, while wldownload creates new lists out of Android-wordlists (even enabling you to choose whether to include offensive words or not).

Overall, I think ideal wordlists should be fairly long (say 2^15 terms?), be prefix code, contain no offensive words (which is not a hard criterion), and preferably contain short words (for easy typing). But this can all be discussed, of course.

[drebs]

I have proposed a "pt-br" wordlist: #60

Check the commit message for the method I used to come up with the list. I did not use the Android wordlist as a base because it comes with many non pt-br words.

[htgoebel]

I have proposed a German, Italian and Latin wordlist: #61

[drebs]

FTR, some wordlists have been added since this issue was created (it, ca, es) but there's no release including them yet.

Tails, for example, has downported them, but it'd be great to get a new release so we ship them to the whole world! 😄

(In passing, if a next release could also include #86 i think it'd address the needs of several users.)

[drebs]

(In passing, if a next release could also include #86 i think it'd address the needs of several users.)

Actually, I wanted to refer to support for custom wordlists in ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/diceware/wordlists, which is related to the above but different.