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Alice and Bob

Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Alice and Bob characters were created by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in their 1978 paper "A Method…

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Alice and Bob

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Edges22
Triples57
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
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related to External links · 16
Alice and Bob → Alice, April, Bob, Bob After-Dinner Speech, BobA Method, Bobs, Ethernet Bob MetcalfeXKCD, Father, History, John GordonGeek Song, Microsoft Bob, Obtaining Digital Signatures, Public-Key Cryptosystems Archived December, Quantum Computing-related, Wayback MachineThe Alice, Zurich Seminar
related to history · 15
Alice and Bob → Adleman, Adleman's, Alice, Bob, Carol, For, In, Previous, Rivest, RSA, Scientific, Shamir, Ted, The, They
related to Cryptographic systems · 10
Alice and Bob → Alice, Bob, Carol, Dave, Eve, Mallory, Other, Sometimes, The, Trent
related to Physics · 10
Alice and Bob → Alice, Alice Robot, Bob, Bob Robot, Carol, Dave, Eve, In, More, The
related to overview · 6
Alice and Bob → Alice, Bob, For, How, Mallory, The

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Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsThe0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsAlice0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsBob0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsEve0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsMallory0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsTrent0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsOther0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsSometimes0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsCarol0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to Cryptographic systemsDave0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to External linksHistory0.60section
Alice and Bobrelated to External linksAlice0.60section

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