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

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sat Jan 2 21:34:38 EST 2016


Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> writes:

>If I were to ask for additional bad-guy names, I think I'd want one for
>providers of "legitimate" hardware/software who make backdoored
>hardware/software instead.  'Baker' maybe?

Vidkun, or is that too obscure?  OTOH there's little chance of it clashing
with something else, although there's already a Victor = verifier.

Peter.


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