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Re: cryptograph(y|er) jokes?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandy Harris)
Thu Jun 24 13:55:54 2004

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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:40:47 +0800
From: Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>
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bear wrote:

> Bob and Alice routinely discuss bombs, terrorism, tax cheating, sexual
> infidelity, and deviant sex over the internet.  They conspire to commit
> crimes, share banned texts and suppressed news, or topple tyrannical
> governments whose agents eavesdrop on their every communication.  They
> do all this with utmost secrecy and unbreakable codes.
> 
> However, Alice and Bob do not even trust each other.
> 
> A protocol designer then, is someone who does not think that Alice
> and Bob are insane.

For the original, see:

http://www.conceptlabs.co.uk/alicebob.html


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