[Info-vax] VMS humor

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Thu Dec 31 22:28:04 EST 2020


On 2020-12-30, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, they most certainly do.  "King Philip fried a pheasant on Friday!"
> is much easier to remember than "ud58{>!1&R17h7uo" and has 189 bits of
> entropy compared to 72 bits.  You seem to have missed some of the most
> salient bits of the section you quoted, notably:
>

What happens when culture gets in the way ?

For example, how much entropy is there in "Listen very carefully, I shall
say this only once" ?

Simon.

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