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Re: cryptograph(y|er) jokes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Johnson)
Thu Jun 24 13:56:54 2004
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:54:45 -0600
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From: "Richard Johnson" <rdump@river.com>
Cc: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>
At 12:46 -0700 on 2004-06-22, bear wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>does anyone know good jokes about
>>cryptography, cryptographers, or security?
>>
>>regards
>>Hadmut
>
> 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.
My favorite versions of that story (also somewhat longer :-):
<http://hubble.physik.uni-konstanz.de/jkrueger/html/alicebob.html>
<http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nemo/security/alicebob.txt>
<http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/rafaeli/funnies/alicebob.html>
And for the really extended piece, containing perhaps the entire speech:
<http://downlode.org/etext/alicebob.html>
Thanks be to John Gordon.
Richard
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