At 12:46 -0700 on 2004-06-22, bear wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>does anyone know good jokes about >>cryptography, cryptographers, or security? >> >>regards >>Hadmut > > Bob and Alice routinely discuss bombs, terrorism, tax cheating, sexual > infidelity, and deviant sex over the internet. They conspire to commit > crimes, share banned texts and suppressed news, or topple tyrannical > governments whose agents eavesdrop on their every communication. They > do all this with utmost secrecy and unbreakable codes. > > However, Alice and Bob do not even trust each other. > > A protocol designer then, is someone who does not think that Alice > and Bob are insane.
My favorite versions of that story (also somewhat longer :-): <http://hubble.physik.uni-konstanz.de/jkrueger/html/alicebob.html> <http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nemo/security/alicebob.txt> <http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/rafaeli/funnies/alicebob.html> And for the really extended piece, containing perhaps the entire speech: <http://downlode.org/etext/alicebob.html> Thanks be to John Gordon. Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
