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Preface -------- 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 --------- 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 --------- install 'calc' (package: apcalc) Usage --------- ./auto_diceware -h