Where do I find a dictionary for password validation?

Question

I am working on a password validation algorithm that needs to check potential passwords against the dictionary. If the password or any part of it can be found in the dictio

Answer 1

Check all substrings in the intended password against http://www.dictionary.com

Answer 2

To verify a strong password, you should do more than just check for words in the dictionary. But if there is not a library already to do this in your platform (what is it by the way?) - simply treat it like you want to do spell checking. If any part of the password passes a spellchecker, it fails.

Microsoft has a library for spell-checking.

If you specifically want to use a web service, consider this.

Answer 3

A couple dictionary/wordlists are available here.