[Cryptography] Different rôles for Alice and Bob etc

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Nov 27 15:51:45 EST 2014


Sent to me by an evil friend of mine:

A recent audit of an encrypted SMS app for Android for some reason 
replaced the more traditional crypto-protagonists with characters from the 
Simpsons; Bart, Nelson and Millhouse instead of Alice, Bob and Mallory.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/03/how_secure_is_textsecure_pretty_well_secure/

The comments are, err, amusing...

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