A brief history of the Bob-ification of the computing industry

Alice and Bob

By Bob Brown, Network World
October 26, 2006 03:16 PM ET

Credit: http://www.cs.virginia.edu

The most familiar names in network security are neither vendors nor geeks: Try Alice and Bob. Since Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman - the R, S and A in RSA Security - introduced Alice and Bob in their seminal public-key cryptosystem paper in 1978, the couple has become the subject of countless security-related papers, test questions, speeches and even, ahem, jokes.

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