[Info-vax] VMS humor

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rso08c$1g4$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry"
<craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes: 

> 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.

I'm also still confused.

Perhaps "culture" means that "To be, or not to be" has low entropy, 
whereas "koppen ist on the tafeltje" has higher entropy.  In general, a 
phrase in an obscure language might be better, and in some mixture of 
languages even better.

As to the quote, that might refer to the practice of setting the initial 
password to "secret" then telling the user that "the password is secret" 
and laugh while waiting for him to figure it out.  :-)