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		zztop44 on Dec 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History of Alice and Bob (2017) Does it seem like a criticism of Rivest, Shamir and Adleman using the name Alice? Or of others projecting gendered assumptions onto Alice?

mitthrowaway2 on Dec 28, 2023 [–]

The previous paragraph criticized Ivan Sutherland for so much as drawing a girl's face with sketchpad, so in context this does seem to be critical of RSA.

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