[Info-vax] VMS humor

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-01-01, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>

Of producing enough entropy from the phrase.

How much is the entropy reduced by when the phrase is also a cultural
reference ?

>> 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.

It's from a BBC comedy series. Very well known here in the UK and elsewhere.

Simon.

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