[Cryptography] Alice, Bob, Eve, Mallory, Maxwell ???

[Kent Borg]

On 12/31/2015 08:36 PM, Henry Baker wrote:
> Is there a personification of random *noise* ?  I was considering "Maxwell" (for Maxwell's Demon); are there any other names in normal use for an attacker that simply injects random noise?

I kind of Like Maxwell, though his Demon (if I understand it) is smarter 
than noise, maybe suggests backdoored noise...save him for bad RNGs.

How about Claude? As in Shannon, in some sense the source of all noise. 
(Before him we still hoped it could go away.)

> Is there a standard name for a MITM attacker?

If there isn't, there needs to be.

-kb