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- From: henk@cs.vu.nl (Henk Smit)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Looking for a good dictionary of propernames
- Message-ID: <15314@star.cs.vu.nl>
- Date: 7 Jul 92 09:47:04 GMT
- References: <1992Jul6.204135.5172@advtech.uswest.com>
-
- huntting@advtech.uswest.com (Brad Huntting) writes:
-
- >Can anyone point me to a good list of proper names? I'm using crack4.0
- >on my password file, and the dictionary I have seems to be missing
- >several common first names.
-
- I have collected a number of dictionaries and a number of name lists.
- They are available from ftp.cs.vu.nl in the directory dictionaires.
- I have included the README from that directory at the end of this posting.
- The file dictionaries/names/Given-Names.Z contains 8608 surnames.
-
-
- Henk.
-
- --
- >From ftp.cs.vu.nl:dictionaries/README:
-
-
- This directory contains a number of dictionaries which you can use to
- check to see if your users use easy-to-guess passwords. I can not guarantee
- the correct spelling of all the words in these dictionaries (esp. the dutch
- one), so using them with spelling checkers is at your own risk.
-
- In the directory papers, there is a paper about password weaknesses by
- Dan Klein.
-
- There are still a lot of languages of which I do not have a dictionary.
- E.g. I could use a spanish or portugese one. If you have new dictionaries,
- or additional words to enlarge the ones I already have, please send me a
- copy or a reference. I, and all system administrators who try to protect
- their systems, would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
-
- Unfortunately, I had to remove the french dictionary, because it was *not*
- in the public domain.
-
-
- Henk.
-
- --
- Henk Smit Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Internet: henk@cs.vu.nl Faculteit Informatica
- Phone: +31 20 548 6218
- --
-
-
- These are the dictionaries I have found, their sizes, and where I got them
- from.
-
- Dutch:
- 178429 words, 1998881 bytes, 779056 bytes compressed.
- This list is made out of some smaller lists,
- het Groene Boekje (available at donau.et.tudelft.nl)
- TeX dutch wordlist (available at archive.cs.ruu.nl)
- local additions at de Vrije Universiteit (cs.vu.nl)
-
- English:
- 53142 words, 479261 bytes, 217119 bytes compressed.
- This list is made out of 2 lists,
- the normal /usr/dict/words on most Unix systems,
- TeX english wordlist (available at archive.cs.ruu.nl)
-
- German:
- There are two lists, germanl.Z and words.german.Z.
- germanl.Z: 27342 words, ? bytes, 137591 bytes compressed.
- words.german.Z: 160086 words, 2060734 bytes, 761528 compressed.
- both from ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:/pub/doc/dict
-
- French:
- 138257 words, 1524757 bytes, 536310 bytes compressed.
- TeX french wordlist (available at *****************)
- Sorry, this list is not in the Public Domain.
-
- Italian:
- 60453 words, 561982 bytes, 217241 bytes compressed.
- David Vincenzetti <vince@ghost.unimi.it>
- ghost.unimi.it:/pub/voc.Z
-
- Norwegian:
- 61843 words, 589234 bytes, 258162 bytes compressed,
- Anders Ellefsrud <anders@ifi.uio.no>,
- ftp.ifi.uio.no:/pub/dicts/norwegian-words.Z
-
- Swedish:
- 23688 words, 200853 bytes, 96169 bytes compressed.
-
- Finnish:
- 280475 words, 3340963 bytes, 1329070 bytes compressed.
- ftp.uu.net:/doc/dictionaries/Finnish
-
- Japanese:
- 115600 words, 935022 bytes, 403986 bytes compressed.
- ftp.waseda.ac.jp:/pub/security/wordlists
-
-
- Beside these language dictionaries, I also found some other lists of words.
-
- Dan Klein's dictionaries:
- 115714 words, 485521 bytes, 942080 uncompressed.
- 26 different dictionaries. Dan used these for his research.
- Read his paper on password cracking, "Foiling the cracker".
- Daniel Klein <dvk@sei.cmu.edu>.
- available on ftp.uu.net.
-
- names/Family-Names.Z and names/Given-Names.Z:
- Family-Names: 13484 names, 106780 bytes, 57749 bytes compressed.
- Given-Names: 8608 names, 60271 bytes, 31136 bytes compressed.
- Andrew Macpherson <A.Macpherson@stl.stc.co.uk>
- available on bnrgate.bnr.co.uk.
-
- names/names.french.Z and names/names.hp.Z:
- names.franch: 702 names, 5315 bytes, 3023 bytes compressed.
- names.hp: 44554 names, 430014 bytes, 188971 bytes compressed.
- Dan Kegel <dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov>
- available on blacks.jpl.nasa.gov:/pub/security/wordlists
-
- names/surnames.finnish.Z
- 713 names, 4488 bytes, 2428 compressed.
- ftp.uu.net:/doc/dictionaries/Finnish
-
-
- Thanks to:
- Daniel Klein <dvk@sei.cmu.edu>
- Andrew Macpherson <A.Macpherson@stl.stc.co.uk>
- David Vincenzetti <vince@ghost.unimi.it>
- Anders Ellefsrud <anders@ifi.uio.no>
- Edwin Kremer <edwin@cs.ruu.nl>
- Dan Kegel <dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov>
- jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen)
- leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
- stefano@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it
- wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
- douglas@netcom.com (Douglas Mason)
- Jim Hendrick <hendrick@ctron.com>
- --
- Henk Smit Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Internet: henk@cs.vu.nl Faculteit Informatica kamer S4.10
- Phone: +31 20 548 6218
-
-