Replacing Alice and Bob
A proposal to replace cryptography’s Alice and Bob with Sita and Rama:
Any book on cryptography invariably involves the characters Alice and Bob. It is always Alice who wants to send a message to Bob. This article replaces the dramatis personnae of cryptography with characters drawn from Hindu mythology.
Stuart • September 27, 2012 9:19 AM
So Sita and Rama are wanting to communicate privately, while Alice and Bob are trying to eavesdrop so they can regain their vaunted position?
… couldn’t resist.