[Cryptography] Alice, Bob, Eve, Nessa, Twein ??

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sat Jan 2 21:31:58 EST 2016


Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> writes:

>I would propose "Nessa" (short for Vanessa) for a canonical MITM-er.

Another use I've seen is Anne, full name "Anne Essay".  I like Vanessa though,
it's just obvious enough who'd being referred to.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a name with more than two i's in it.

Peter.


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