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In an attempt to find a quick and easy-to-deploy ftp service that supported SSL and FXP Site-to-Site transfers, I came across pure-ftpd. But, it wasn’t that easy from the start. After about 6 unsuccessful hours of trying to figure out a working configuration for vsftpd to support SSL and FXP transfers, I was left nothing of use. The next morning, I went on a search for an ftp server that was simple and chock full of features… thus, pure-ftpd was discovered.
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UPDATE: I have updated the script to include other letters that can be represented as numbers.  An issue lies within words that have both I’s and L’s, because they both get replaced by 1′s, and it can make the word very confusing and kind of useless.

So in an attempt to brush up on my Python a bit, and also just have some fun, I wrote up a little script today that searches a dictionary file for words that can be represented in hexadecimal.

Result from a dictionary of English words I found online:
hexwords.txt
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