[Info-vax] VMS humor

[Bob Eager]

On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:39:14 -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:

> On 1/2/21 7:27 AM, Bob Eager wrote:
>> On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:21:30 -0600, Craig A. Berry 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?
>>>
>>>> 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 a British and (arguably) French cultural reference. A short Google
>> will inform you.
> 
> OK, so it is a well-known sentence for watchers of a particular TV show:
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%27Allo_%27Allo!
_characters#Michelle_Dubois>
> 
> Obviously, don't use a well-known phrase or sentence: make up your own
> nonsense phrase. Or better yet have your password generator give you a
> truly random sequence of four words as XKCD recommended.

I use five real dice, and the improved dicewords:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware

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