[Info-vax] VMS humor

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Fri Jan 1 15:21:30 EST 2021


On 12/31/20 9:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.  

> What happens when culture gets in the way ?

In the way of what?

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

If there is a cultural reference in there, I'm missing it. In any case,
I just don't understand what your question is.



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