{"id":32689,"date":"2017-07-25T16:47:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/a-brief-history-of-alice-bob-cryptographys-first-couple-boing-boing.php"},"modified":"2017-07-25T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:47:52","slug":"a-brief-history-of-alice-bob-cryptographys-first-couple-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/cryptography\/a-brief-history-of-alice-bob-cryptographys-first-couple-boing-boing.php","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of Alice &amp; Bob, cryptography&#8217;s first couple &#8211; Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Alice and Bob are the hypothetical    communicants in every cryptographic example or explainer, two    people trying to talk with one another without being thwarted    or overheard by Eve, Mallory and their legion of nefarious    friends.  <\/p>\n<p>    Alice and Bob's first known appearance was in Rivest, Shamir,    and Adleman's 1978 Communications in the ACM paper, A    Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key    Cryptosystems.\" Since then, they have enjoyed many adventures.  <\/p>\n<p>    The potted history of Alice and Bob at Cryptocouple is a    delightful way to explore the history of crypto and the way we    think about secrecy and privacy.  <\/p>\n<p>      Alice and Bob are the worlds most famous cryptographic      couple. Since their invention in 1978, they have at once been      called inseparable, and have been the subject of numerous      divorces, travels, and torments. In the ensuing years, other      characters have joined their cryptographic family. Theres      Eve, the passive and submissive eavesdropper, Mallory the      malicious attacker, and Trent, trusted by all, just to name a      few.    <\/p>\n<p>      While Alice, Bob, and their extended family were originally      used to explain how public key cryptography works, they have      since become widely used across other science and engineering      domains. Their influence continues to grow outside of      academia as well: Alice and Bob are now a part of geek lore,      and subject to narratives and visual depictions that combine      pedagogy with in-jokes, often reflecting of the sexist and      heteronormative environments in which they were born and      continue to be used. More than just the worlds most famous      cryptographic couple, Alice and Bob have become an archetype      of digital exchange, and a lens through which to view broader      digital culture.    <\/p>\n<p>    Alice & Bob A History of    The Worlds Most Famous Cryptographic Couple [Cryptocouple]  <\/p>\n<p>      This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.:The original      Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the hills above Glendale, may      be best known outside California for inspiring the      sledgehammer satire of the 1965 cult comedyThe Loved      One. For tourists and curiosity-seekers, its the gonzo      lifes work of Hubert Eaton, who memorialized himself as The      Builder in the []    <\/p>\n<p>      The Awakening by Henry Mayer is considered one of the finest      pieces of political art of the 20th-century and is often      mentioned as the most beautiful of the suffrage maps.      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Alice and Bob's first known appearance was in Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman's 1978 Communications in the ACM paper, A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems.\" Since then, they have enjoyed many adventures. The potted history of Alice and Bob at Cryptocouple is a delightful way to explore the history of crypto and the way we think about secrecy and privacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}