maaria
@maaria
TIL Alice and Bob were almost Adolf and Bertholt Rich Schroepell made the suggestion for the RSA paper: "Another literary suggestion: name your protagonists, perhaps Adolf and Bertholt or somesuch. This would reserve isolated letters for mathematical quantities."
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maaria
@maaria
You can read the full paper here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43907811
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