A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colors. (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colors found in canned fruit salad.) Too often one sees similar effects from interface designers using color window systems such as X; there is a tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use. The archetypal individuals used as examples in discussions of cryptographic protocols. Originally, theorists would say something like: “A communicates with someone who claims to be B, So to be sure, A tests that B knows a secret number K. So A sends to B a random number X. B then forms Y by encrypting X under key K and sends Y back to A” Because this sort of thing is quite hard to follow, theorists stopped using the unadorned letters A and B to represent the main players and started calling them Alice and Bob. So now we say “Alice communicates with someone claiming to be Bob, and to be sure, Alice tests that Bob knows a secret number K. Alice sends to Bob a random number X. Bob then forms Y by encrypting X under key K and sends Y back to Alice”. A whole mythology rapidly grew up around the metasyntactic names; seehttp://www.conceptlabs.co.uk/alicebob.html. In Bruce Schneier's definitive introductory text Applied Cryptography (2nd ed., 1996, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-11709-9) he introduced a table of dramatis personae headed by Alice and Bob. Others include Carol (a participant in three- and four-party protocols), Dave (a participant in four-party protocols), Eve (an eavesdropper), Mallory (a malicious active attacker), Trent (a trusted arbitrator), Walter (a warden), Peggy (a prover) and Victor (a verifier). These names for roles are either already standard or, given the wide popularity of the book, may be expected to quickly become so. angry fruit salad
Hacker Slang: angry fruit salad
Alice and Bob
Hacker Slang: Alice and Bob
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Chairman and chief executive officer, Archer Daniels Midland Company Nationality: American. Born: June 22, 1943, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Education: Valparaiso University, BA, 1964; JD, 1969. Family: Son of Glenn Allen Andreas Sr. (bank president) and Vera Irene Yates; married Toni Kay Hibma, 1964; children: three. Career: U.S. Treasury Department, Denver, 1969–1973; Archer Daniels Midland Company, 1973–1986, lawyer; treasurer, 1986–1989; chief financial officer of European operations, 1989–1994; vice president and counsel to the executive committee, 1994–1996; member of the office of the chief executive, 1996–1997; president and chief executive officer, 1997–1999; chairman and chief executive officer, 1999–. Address: Archer Daniels Midland Company, 4666 Faries Parkway, Decatur, Illinois 62526; http://www.admworld.com.G. Allen Jr. Andreas
Business Biographies: G. Allen Jr. Andreas