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Marguerite Krupp wrote:
>
> Legal issues aside, you quickly run into translation and cultural issues if
> you use recognizable names.
>
> MUST you use people's names? Can you substitute business-oriented aliases?
> If names are a requirement, I'd suggest androgynous ones like "Lee" or
> "Chris". ...
The standard names for cryptographers, coding theorists etc. are Alice, Bob,
Carol, Dave, ... = A, B, C, D, ...
Schneier's Applied Cryptography introduces a bunch more. Eve the eavesdropper,
Mallory the malicious attacker, Victor the verifier, Trent(?) the trusted
intermediary, ...
There's a howlingly funny (at least to cryptographers) biography of Alice
and Bob at:
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