@preinheimer Even Eve would benefit, getting away from the screen and into a coffee shop, two tables over from Bob and Alice.

@preinheimer as long as they've been writing to each other, I think they've been living together for a long time

@preinheimer I often try to learn cryptography while on the toilet. I try to interpret the meaning of the shapes of the brown matter before me, I try voodoo logic, I try tea leaves, I try to understand why the toilet paper fell a certain way, I try to grasp the intricate pattern on the paper and how the machines can make it so fast and so cheap. Cryptography so far is a mistery to me.

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>> The more I learn about cryptography, the more I think Alice and Bob should probably just talk in person.

I came to the same conclusion regarding #PrivateCloudCompute. The more I learn about the lengths Apple went to implement #PCC, the more believe users should just talk to an expert in person 😉

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@preinheimer @marick I wonder if the technical implementation of the cone of silence is any simpler…

@preinheimer "get a room"

@preinheimer Should I assume you are familiar with this treatise on Alice and Bob?

https://urbigenous.net/library/alicebob.html

@preinheimer But how will they organise where to meet?!

@preinheimer though they could also use quantum entanglements and stay apart from one another.

@preinheimer With their phones turned off and out of the room, if possible.

@preinheimer Then you learned, that it's possible to record a conversation just by pointing a later on a window pane and come to the conclusion that Alice and Bob probably should not talk at all :neocat_laugh_nervous:

@preinheimer but how will they agree on a meeting place and time ?

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@preinheimer This cryptographically secure exchange could have been a meeting.

@preinheimer Have we met Alice and Bob, maybe it's good they don't?

@preinheimer Except Bob is actually meeting Mallory in a wig.

And most importantly, they should talk to Eve.

@preinheimer I take it you haven't watched The Conversation, then :)

@preinheimer the more time I spend on the fediverse, the more I realize Alice *was* Bob.

(Shoutout to all the Alices I follow! 😆)

@preinheimer Most cryptologists do too

@preinheimer do you know why Eve is called Eve? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eavesdropping

@preinheimer But Eve will be hiding in the bushes!

@preinheimer And expose themselves to sonic side-channel attacks from Eve? Never!

@preinheimer After meeting they would leave thinking "UGH this could have been an email."

@preinheimer And that Eve needs to consider finding a good therapist.

@preinheimer @pseudonym Eve has been waiting for this for decades!

@preinheimer their in-person conversation would likely be more secure

@preinheimer Hahahaha yes 😂

@preinheimer they should probably use Navajo as well

@preinheimer @raimue and this is why we're cutting home office to 1 day / week max! people are so much more secure when in the office. and the productivity! no more handshak... well, but at least no key exchanges!!