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Re: Alice and Bobs full name



Dirk Neumann <neum_d@yahoo.de>:
>  On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:18:17 +0200
>  "Martin Marcher" <martin@marcher.name> wrote:
> > 
> > does anyone by any chance know Alice's and Bob's full name (Alice and
> > Bob being the famous actors of every security dialog)?
> 
>  Does anyone know the project which contains the original foo and bar
>  functions?

That was a Top Secret Navy program.  Something about saving face.

I always wondered why sna() and fu() never caught on (and the latter
certainly should have).


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