Cryptography Comic
Alice, Bob, and Eve. (I get a mention, too.)
Alice, Bob, and Eve. (I get a mention, too.)
Steven • November 10, 2006 12:14 PM
LOL
Anonymous Coward • November 10, 2006 12:17 PM
LOL!
Anonymous • November 10, 2006 12:28 PM
AOL!1
K. Signal Eingang • November 10, 2006 12:44 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.
@Eve • November 10, 2006 12:46 PM
Let me introduce you to Mallory. I think you two would make quite the couple…
–d
jayh • November 10, 2006 2:19 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.
BW • November 10, 2006 2:45 PM
How can we be sure that this message comes from the real Eve? Maybe it comes from Alice…
Thomas • November 12, 2006 1:54 AM
@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!
John • November 12, 2006 2:56 PM
Good heavens! Now that’s gotta be the most significant recognition of an arcane discipline I’ve ever seen.
Congratulations (I think).
Paeniteo • 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?
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.
Bruce Schneier • November 13, 2006 1:14 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.
anton • November 15, 2006 7:22 AM
COOL!
The cryptography is serious bussines.
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Alice • November 10, 2006 12:01 PM
Still waiting to meet this Bob person. I hear so much about him.