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Who are Alice and Bob and why do central banks keep bringing them up?

https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/PDF-99/Accenture-Cross-Border-Distributed-Ledger-Technologies.pdf

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>> No.16951847

>>16951831
They are the pepe and wojak of cryptography

>> No.16951876

Used mostly in game theory and economics.
Instead of player A and B or agent A and B.
They use Alice and Bob

>> No.16951882

There is even book describing the adventures of Alice and Bob during numerous adventures

>> No.16951923

>>16951838
Cryptographers have used Alice and Bob to explain stuff since the 1970s

>> No.16951984

as soon as alice and bob start getting brought up, I'm out. I mentally check out, I can read the explanation over and over and it doesn't make sense. why are these two specific people always getting involved in such difficult to understand quandaries

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>>16951838
>poo
>pee

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