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

John Denker jsd at av8n.com
Sat Jan 9 05:23:45 EST 2016


At 06:31 PM 1/2/2016, Peter Gutmann wrote:

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

  *) Minor point:  FWIW there's Iphigenia ... not a common name 
these days, but still recognizable as a name.

  *) Larger point:  Presumably the intent was to get all the way 
to five.  That is possible in Finnish.  Lots of vowels, and lots 
of hyphenated names.  There exist people named	
	Vili-Iisakki		(William-Isaac)

The initial V corresponds to the Roman numeral for five, which
is nice.  Furthermore, if you prefer an initial I, you can flip
things around:
	Iisakki-Vili

There's nothing wrong with that, although it would be an unusual
name, because when forming hyphenated Finnish names it is more 
common to put the shorter name first.

These are not the sort of ethnic name that one most naturally
associates with a FVEY representative, but it could happen.



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