[Info-vax] VMS humor

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/2/21 4:51 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.  :-)
> 

You mean like at "The Doors of Durin"?

bill