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

Henry Baker hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Sat Jan 2 15:34:26 EST 2016


At 06:10 AM 1/2/2016, Eric Tully wrote:
>NSA.
>
>On Thu, Dec 31, 2015, at 08:36 PM, Henry Baker wrote:
>>
>> Is there a standard name for a MITM attacker?

Got it!

*Nessa* (with her goldi-Locks)

Like its cousin Tessa, Nessa -- a shortening of Vanessa or Agnes or Anastasia among other possibilities -- is an attractive nickname that can stand on its own.

http://nameberry.com/babyname/Nessa



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