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Preface
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The xkcd comic "password strength" (http://xkcd.com/936/) suggests using
"four random common words" as a relatively strong password.  Unfortunately
humans are not good at being random.  Diceware can help with this.

Diceware is a method used for picking random words which consists of
rolling a pair of dice, and then using the resulting number to looking up
a word on a list.

I don't know about the rest of the internet, but I for one, can't be
bothered pulling out dice, and looking up words, so I wrote this small
shell script to do it for me.

Overview
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auto_diceware uses strong entropy from /dev/random to get a random number
which is used to look up a random word from the provided word list.

Installation
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install 'calc' (package: apcalc)

Usage
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./auto_diceware -h

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A shell script to randomly pick a word, using strong entropy.

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