Re: Alice and Bobs full name

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...

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