Eve's Eternal Struggle to Intercept Alice and Bob
Description
A two-panel meme using the 'Let Me In' format featuring Eric Andre. In the top panel, a person labeled 'EVE' is desperately trying to get through a tall metal fence, pointing and shouting 'Let me in.' Above the fence, text reads, 'ALICE AND BOB HAVING A DISCUSSION'. This panel sets up a classic scenario from cryptography. In the bottom panel, the character screams in anguish, with the caption 'LET ME IIIIIIIIIN!'. The meme humorously visualizes the concept of an eavesdropper in cryptography. Alice and Bob are standard placeholder names for two parties wishing to communicate securely, while Eve (the eavesdropper) is the malicious third party attempting to listen in or intercept their messages. The meme perfectly captures the frustration of being locked out by a secure, encrypted channel
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Eve's reaction when she discovers the Diffie-Hellman key exchange happened while she was still trying to figure out the Wi-Fi password
TLS 1.3 with perfect forward secrecy: watching every legacy middlebox turn into Eve screaming “LET ME IIIIN!” is the most satisfying integration test I’ve ever run
Eve's been trying to MITM our conversation for 20 years, but now she's pivoted to a timing attack on our Zoom calls by joining 30 seconds early and making small talk
Eve's frustration is palpable here - after years of lurking in academic papers as the canonical eavesdropper, she's still getting locked out of Alice and Bob's conversations. Maybe she should've implemented perfect forward secrecy instead of just screaming at the gate. Classic MITM energy, but with none of the actual access
Alice and Bob finally ship mTLS with cert pinning; Eve screams LET ME IN - corporate TLS inspection just discovered what “end‑to‑end” actually means
After Alice and Bob switched to TLS 1.3 with ECDHE and cert pinning, Eve learned Wireshark is just a very pretty entropy viewer
Eve's been factoring that fence since Diffie-Hellman dropped - still no shared secret