[Cryptography] Alice, Bob, Eve, Nessa, Twein ??
John Denker
jsd at av8n.com
Fri Jun 23 03:18:13 EDT 2023
Back on 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.
Pivoting to the larger question of how one might personify
FVEY, the is the extinct genus Opabinia, which had, you
guessed it ... five eyes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia
On 1/9/16 3:23 AM, I made a couple of other suggestions:
>
> *) 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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