Rich Schroepell response to Ron Rivest and the RSA paper included a suggestion to name the protagonists Adolf and Bertholt. "Another literary suggestion: name

Rich Schroepell response to Ron Rivest and the RSA paper included a suggestion to name the protagonists Adolf and Bertholt. "Another literary suggestion: name your protagonists, perhaps Adolf and Bertholt or somesuch. This would reserve isolated letters for mathematical quantities." Rivest, Shamir and Adleman liked the suggestion and eventually settled on Alice and Bob.