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Against all odds, over a noisy telephone line, tapped by the tax
authorities and the secret police, Alice will happily attempt, with
someone she doesn't trust, whom she cannot hear clearly, and who is
probably someone else, to fiddle her tax returns and to organise a coup
d'etat, while at the same time minimising the cost of the phone call.

A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy.
-- John Gordon, "Alice and Bob After-Dinner Speech", Zurich Seminar,
April 1984