[Cryptography] Alice, Bob, Eve, Nessa, Twein ??
John Denker
jsd at av8n.com
Sat Jan 9 05:23:45 EST 2016
At 06:31 PM 1/2/2016, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a name with more than two i's in it.
*) Minor point: FWIW there's Iphigenia ... not a common name
these days, but still recognizable as a name.
*) Larger point: Presumably the intent was to get all the way
to five. That is possible in Finnish. Lots of vowels, and lots
of hyphenated names. There exist people named
Vili-Iisakki (William-Isaac)
The initial V corresponds to the Roman numeral for five, which
is nice. Furthermore, if you prefer an initial I, you can flip
things around:
Iisakki-Vili
There's nothing wrong with that, although it would be an unusual
name, because when forming hyphenated Finnish names it is more
common to put the shorter name first.
These are not the sort of ethnic name that one most naturally
associates with a FVEY representative, but it could happen.
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