<quote> A computer scientist has come up with a proposal to replace cryptography's Alice and Bob with characters from Hindu mythology.
For decades, techniques to encrypt and decrypt communications have been explained using two imaginary characters, Alice and Bob, and potential eavesdropper Eve. Alice sends a message to Bob, and Eve is always trying to intercept it - the little sneak. Alice and Bob first came to light in 1978 in a groundbreaking paper [PDF] on the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography. Dr S. Parthasarathy, a part-time lecturer and full-time employee of Indian biz Algologic Research & Solutions, suggests a cast change in the dramatis personae of cryptography with Sita and Rama, two central characters in the Hindu mythological epic Ramayana. The proposed sacking-and-hiring also replaces Eve with Ravana the rogue, as the doctor explains. </quote> Read more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/crypto_analogies/ http://profpartha.webs.com/publications/alicebob.pdf -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
