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Re:Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity by mapmeldo on Saturday November 15, 2014 @07:45PM (#8613115)
yes, originally I was thinking 256. Unfortunately it's difficult to reach 256 without adding hate/vitrol/racist language
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Re:Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday November 15, 2014 @07:49PM (#8613120)
Ah, I see the problem. An awful lot of profanities are ethnic/racial/other minority slurs.

Perhaps some foreign-language and more obscure (dialectal?) English swear words could be used? With crowd-sourcing I'm sure we could reach 256.

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Re:Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity by mapmeldo on Saturday November 15, 2014 @07:54PM (#8613125)
as it was, I needed to make a call for swears and look up some different dictionaries to fill up this project

People are somewhat reluctant to share their profanity on GitHub

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Re:Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday November 15, 2014 @07:56PM (#8613131)
Make that call here and now on Hacker News, while this still has attention and is on the front page, and I'm sure you'll get contributions!

I suggest putting at the top-level of this comments section, so it gets more attention.

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Re:Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity by betenoire on Saturday November 15, 2014 @09:41PM (#8613310)
add filler words and turn them into sentences?
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