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November 10, 2006

Cryptography Comic

Alice, Bob, and Eve. (I get a mention, too.)

Posted on November 10, 2006 at 11:09 AM • 15 Comments • View Blog Reactions

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Still waiting to meet this Bob person. I hear so much about him.

Posted by: Alice at November 10, 2006 12:01 PM

LOL

Posted by: Steven at November 10, 2006 12:14 PM

LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at November 10, 2006 12:17 PM

AOL!1

Posted by: Anonymous at November 10, 2006 12:28 PM

@ Alice

I can introduce you to him.

Posted by: Eve at November 10, 2006 12:43 PM

I think XKCD is angling to become the official comic strip of Schneierblog.

I guess we'll know for sure when he starts throwing gratuitous cephalopod references into the strip.

Posted by: K. Signal Eingang at November 10, 2006 12:44 PM

Let me introduce you to Mallory. I think you two would make quite the couple...

--d

Posted by: @Eve at November 10, 2006 12:46 PM

When my wife's aunt and uncle (Alice and Bob) had a daughter it seemed obvious to to me they should name her Carol. They failed to see my logic, however.

Posted by: jayh at November 10, 2006 2:19 PM

How can we be sure that this message comes from the real Eve? Maybe it comes from Alice...

Posted by: BW at November 10, 2006 2:45 PM

@jayh

And if they had a son he should be named Ted?

Posted by: Bryan Feir at November 10, 2006 3:16 PM

@BW
"""How can we be sure that this message comes from the real Eve? Maybe it comes from Alice..."""

How very astute, and here's proof:

" ... to the lipstick heart smeared on the disk ... "

Obviously this is not Eve the eavesdropper, it's Ivan the Interceptor working with Paul the Pretexter!

Posted by: Thomas at November 12, 2006 1:54 AM

Good heavens! Now that's gotta be the most significant recognition of an arcane discipline I've ever seen.

Congratulations (I think).

Posted by: John at November 12, 2006 2:56 PM

I wonder what would be done if a cryptographic protocol requires 5 participants.
Would Eve come to late honors? Would we meet Fred?
Or won't it be necessary to have such a protocol as any 4-party protocol can be extended to 5 participants? I think so, but I don't remember that this topic would have been adressed anywhere.

Posted by: Paeniteo at November 13, 2006 12:45 AM

"I wonder what would be done if a cryptographic protocol requires 5 participants. Would Eve come to late honors? Would we meet Fred?"

In Applied Cryptography, I continued the sequence: Alice, Bob, Carol, Dave, Ellen.

Eve is reserved for the eavesdropper.

Posted by: Bruce Schneier at November 13, 2006 1:14 AM

COOL!
The cryptography is serious bussines.

Posted by: anton at November 15, 2006 7:22 AM