On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:33:41PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > 2007/9/21, Dave Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 05:18:17PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > > does anyone by any chance know Alice's and Bob's full name (Alice and > > > Bob being the famous actors of every security dialog)? > > > > The original paper that introduced them - > > http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/rsapaper.pdf > > doesn't give them full names. > > hmm from p3 > "For our scenarios we suppose that A and B (also known as Alice and Bob) > are..." > > doesn't sound to me like that is the first mentioning. If anyone has > other sources I'm open to more suggestions, wikipedia lead me to > something [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_bob and > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_%26_Carol_%26_Ted_%26_Alice] but it > seems Ron Rivest wouldn't want us to call em > > * Alice Henderson and > * Bob Sanders > > martin (not so sure that is the best one could come up with but it > turns out there isn't much reference to something else) > > PS: The Issue came up because I was tired of having only John and Jane > Doe's in a test system where I must enter a last name and since i like > to actually have some sense in the things i type i figured someone > must have had the same problem... > my impression of the name choice was that they were alphabetic choices corresponding to a, b, c, the first three letters of the english language alphabet. (a=alice,b=bob,c=...). As for a name used in a test system: I used to use names of people I knew or star trek characters or other random characters in a tv show. HTH, K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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