Eve is always watching

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A popular photobomb meme is repurposed to explain a fundamental concept in cryptography. The image depicts a wedding scene where a couple is kissing in the background. A white label identifies the bride as 'Alice' and the groom as 'Bob'. In the foreground, another man stares intently and somewhat menacingly into the camera, photobombing the couple. He is labeled 'Eve'. The joke is a clever personification of the standard placeholder names used in security and cryptography: Alice and Bob are the two parties who wish to communicate securely, while Eve is the 'eavesdropper' who tries to intercept their communication. The meme perfectly captures the intrusive nature of a man-in-the-middle attack or network eavesdropping, where the attacker (Eve) is always watching the supposedly private exchange between two parties (Alice and Bob)

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Eavesdropping Mitm CryptographicProtocol Security CyberSecurityMemes

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick This is your data transmission on HTTP. Any questions?

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

This is your data transmission on HTTP. Any questions?
Anonymous

The moment the officiant said “you may exchange keys,” Alice and Bob went with unauthenticated Diffie-Hellman - now Eve’s in every wedding photo, a timeless reminder to always add authentication to your handshake
Anonymous

Eve's been trying to break their connection for years, but Alice and Bob's relationship uses perfect forward secrecy - even if she compromises today's session key, she'll never decrypt their past conversations about whose turn it is to refactor the legacy codebase
Anonymous

After years of exchanging encrypted messages, Alice and Bob finally achieved perfect forward secrecy at their wedding - but Eve still managed to capture the session key in this candid photo. Turns out even TLS 1.3 can't protect against a determined third party with a camera at the ceremony
Anonymous

Eve sees the handshake but can't derive the shared secret - passive attacks gonna pass
Anonymous

TLS 1.3 at the altar: Alice and Bob negotiated ECDHE; Eve photobombed the handshake, but without a rogue CA all she captured was cake
Anonymous

Alice and Bob finally ship mutual TLS; Eve still gets the metadata - PFS protects the kiss, not the guest list
@Grebenkin_Il 5y

it's difficult
@clockware 5y

Does he really want to intercept any of this?
@viktorrozenko 5y

I think it's about the fact that in CS problems they use names like Alice and Bob because they start with the first 2 letters of the alphabet, where Eve is not close enough
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  Eve is the eavesdropper Alice and Bob are generic characters
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Haha) dude thx
2. @furqan 5y
  
  makes sense
3. @p4vook 5y
  
  Cryptography terms. Alice usually wants to send a message to Bob, while Eve wants to intercept it.
@viktorrozenko 5y

But I'm not sure
@wizaral 5y

Cryptographic problems is described with this names
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
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Deleted Account 5y

Imagine Middle man attack
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y
  
  Oh noo😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍
2. dev_meme 5y
  
  😂
@viktorrozenko 5y

Oh yeag
@viktorrozenko 5y

Truuue
@viktorrozenko 5y

Thx ppl
@FunnyGuyU 5y

He's gonna be 'Man in the middle' )
@annshorn 5y

😂
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y

I do not want to be archaic but why does left human have male face and is called Eve?
1. @kitbot256 5y
  
  Short for Evan?

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