http://www.alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2007/02/03/whos-that-girl en-us 40 metasyntactics <p>So who's Alice? If you found this blog because of your interest in computer security it's a good chance that you already knew that in cryptography <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob">Alice, Bob </a>and Mallory are often used as placeholders for common actors in different scenarios. I guess it's simpler to remember Alice and Bob than "The sender A wants to identify itself to receiver B" and alike. Alice usually wants to send data to Bob. If there exists an eavesdropper she is often called Eve. Mallory is a more dangerous animal than Eve because he has control over Alice's messages in such a way that he can change or resend then.</p> <p>The first posting I had in mind for this blog involved Alice, Bob and Mallory and suddenly the blog had a name. <strike>That "article" isn't quite finished yet.</strike> Now <a href="/articles/2007/02/05/trojans-and-one-time-passwords">it</a> is.</p> <p>This blog will most certainly not be about IT Security alone. I have been known to post some <a href="http://plea.se/me/http2ftp.html">Ruby-snippets</a>, <a href="http://plea.se/me/validatePnum.html">JavaScripts</a> and such in the past and will try to keep that up.</p> Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:56:00 +0100 urn:uuid:b58e73b4-3fe1-4a1c-b6af-254f684d7b9a Jonas Elfström http://www.alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2007/02/03/whos-that-girl Security