Grayda Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 As a part of my new framework I'm writing, I'd like to have a dictionary of common words for checking passwords against. If the password equals or is close to this common word, reject the password. I've got the code written up, I'm just after a ready made dictionary that I can freely use and redistribute. As an array would be preferable, but whatever format would work. If worse comes to worst, I can make one myself, but if I can get my hands on something, that'd be fantastic. Anyone have any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 There are plenty of dictionaries on the internet. I once extracted one from aspell that you can use: http://daniel0.net/dict-en.txt.bz2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayda Posted June 15, 2009 Author Share Posted June 15, 2009 Thanks for the link Daniel. However, it's broken: "Not Found. The requested URL /dict-en.txt.bz2 was not found on this server." I'll take a look at using ASpell in the meantime. cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Yeah, I lost all the data on my server last weekend. You should have been back faster I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayda Posted June 15, 2009 Author Share Posted June 15, 2009 I know how you feel. My hosting bill got sent to the wrong address and as a result I almost lost all of my and my clients' websites. Payday was a week away too, so I was under a lot of stress For the record, I've downloaded SCOWL from this site and am currently writing up a function so different dictionary sizes can be "dropped" in. The word list is free for redistribution, sale etc. as long as the copyright notice is displayed somewhere within the website or in the source Now, to get testing! Thanks for your help Daniel and good luck getting your stuff back.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Hrmmm you probably don't care about this anymore since you've already found a list, and this is going to come off as rediculously creepy, but I happen to have a copy of Daniel's word list. (I downloaded it a long time ago when he posted a link before, and I managed to find it by searching my PHP dev folder for the file name lol.) Anyway.... [attachment deleted by admin] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayda Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 Thanks for posting this. It has more common words than the other big list from SCOWL so I'll include both and developers can decide what one to use depending on their site. And I don't think it's creepy. Mirroring his entire site purely for your own.. er.. enjoyment, then that would be creepy haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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