is this project still alive? Anyone interested in merging this? @grempe maybe?

Please see #55

I wont accept wholesale replacement of the upstream lists maintained by the creator of Diceware.

If you feel strongly enough on the issue I would consider adding an alternative DE list but I'd need a native German speaker (other than yourself) to vet the quality and appropriateness of the lists words.

Hi, it's fine for me if you want to keep the previous list, though I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is "maintained" by anyone. It clearly wasn't drafted by a native speaker in the first place, as indicated by all the random character combinations and other words that look like they could be German, but really aren't. You might assume that I'm exaggerating here, but it really is that bad. That's why I invested the time to create an alternative.

How would you like to approach the vetting process?

I took a closer look at your methodology for creating the list and the source material. It seems well thought out and not just a random list of words with no provenance for the contents as some others that have been provided to me are.

I'd be happy to merge a pull request that adds this as an alternative DE word list in addition to the original upstream list.

No additional vetting now required.

Thank you.

Updated it so that both the old list by Benjamin Tenne and the new list based on DeReKo data is available. I wasn't sure about the labels, I named them German (DeReKo) and German (Tenne) for now.

@grempe are you fine with the changes in this PR or is there anything else I can do?

Hi there,

another German native here. I can only endorse @klamann and this PR. The current German list is really anything but good unfortunately. It leads me (and probably others) to push the button several times and choose some words I like by myself, which leads to a lower entropy.

I also just checked the submitted list (without reading every single entry). Apparently they are all common German words, it looks really very good to me. The only disadvantage might be that some of these words are somewhat longer, but I don't know if there is a way around it in German. Anyway I would really love to see this merged.

Thank you both!

Hi @sreith1, thanks for your feedback! I limited the length of the words in the list to 10 characters, because I didn't want to exclude too many common words that are that long, but I could easily make another list with a limit of 8 characters or maybe even 7.

I updated the list so that it now only contains words with a length of 3 to 8 characters (thanks @sreith1 for the suggestion). There are more words in the list now that are not as common, but this gives us shorter passphrases with the same security properties, which is more user friendly.

@grempe is there anything you'd like to change about this PR or can we merge this?

I will try to get to this this week. Thank you.

I've merged and pushed this change. Thanks for the patience and the nice work. Please let me know if you see any issues.