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And here I thought that Bruce Shneier started the Alice and Bob stuff ;/ There is another alphabet he skipped (here are the parts I remember offhand): A as in
by sam_goody 3y ago
And here I thought that Bruce Shneier started the Alice and Bob stuff ;/
There is another alphabet he skipped (here are the parts I remember offhand):
A as in I or R,
C as in Q or Zar or Chi,
E as in I or L or F,
G as in Nu,
H as in U or Our,
K as in Nife,
M as in Nemonic,
P as in Sycho or Terodactyl,
S as in C or Shoe,
W as in Y or Ry,
X as in Zylophone,
Y as in U
- not2b 3y agoLooks like we have R, S, and A of RSA to thank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoI always figured it came from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_%26_Carol_%26_Ted_%26_Alice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_%26_Carol_%26_Ted_%26_Alic... and that by referencing Bob & Alice one got an extra frisson because of "Swapping partners, Bob and Alice kiss fervently, as do Ted and Carol..." - that is to say Bob (the free love liberal man) and Alice (the conservative commitment woman) are put together in all these anecdotes because it is naughty and naughtiness adds to the amusement. After a while of course nobody remembered the naughty movie and people just used Bob & Alice because those were the names one used for this kind of thing.
- ajmurmann 3y agoI always assumed it was just giving names to the letters A, B and C, especially since a French cryptographer in a workshop told me that they use Amelie, Bernarde and Carole in French classes.
- cout 3y agoI thought it was something to do with quantum entanglement, since Alice and Bob are commonly used to explain Bell's theorem. Chris Ferrie even uses them in his book Quantum Entanglement for Babies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem