1Password 8 Memorable Password Generator Wordlist Location

Sidewinder · August 2022

Can you tell me, where the wordlist for the memorable password generator is located?
I am on 1Password 8.

Thanks in advance!

1Password Version: 1Password for Mac 8.8.0
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OS Version: macOS 12.5.1
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Jack.P_1P · September 2022

Hi @Sidewinder:

Great question. The memorable password list in 1Password 8 is included in the application itself, and isn't available on disk. Is there something specific about the word list that I can help you with?

Jack

Sidewinder · September 2022

Hi @Jack.P_1P:

thanks a lot for your reply.
Actually, I just wanted to do a quick inspection of the wordlist out of curiosity for the words included and I am also interested in the number of words in the current wordlist to better estimate entropy when choosing the necessary minimum length for newly created memorable passphrases.

Sebastian

jason_k · September 2022

@Sidewinder — I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the wordlist itself, since it's technically part of 1Password ... but if you're handy with command-line tools, the raw data is plainly embedded within one of its internal libraries. Grep around inside 1Password.app for the first word, "aardvark", to find it.

I count 18,147 full words. If you care, there are also 10,121 word fragments that are used when "full words" is turned off. (There's also a list of around 10,000 words that likely represent the vulnerable passwords from previous breaches. These are really fascinating for different reasons but not relevant to your question. 😉)

If you're curious about the general flavor of these wordlists, 1Password's public GitHub repo contains what appears to be older versions of these lists: https://github.com/1Password/spg/tree/master/testdata

The main difference I see is that potentially offensive terms have been removed in the actual app (hooray).