Alice and Bob

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A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment.

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