Talk:2691: Encryption
Revision as of 09:43, 29 October 2022 by 172.70.91.58 (talk)
More generally, when the explanation of the encryption algorithm needs example people, it picks names going sequentially through the alphabet. Alice and Bob are the canonical first two, names starting with C and D would be next. Eve, the eavesdropper, is next. Barmar (talk) 04:01, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
- ...though it depends upon what other protagonists/required roles are to be featured in the scenario as to which initials get given to the 'normal' example correspondants. And I'm sure you could come up with other punny names for other novel roles, if you're in the position to require something special, only Alice and Bob being (normally!) inviolable as to both role and initialism. 172.70.91.58 09:43, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
Is this comic a subtle reference to Signal announcing the discontinuing of SMS/MMS support, thus vastly lowering the number of people that Signal users can send messages to? 172.70.114.205 09:10, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
