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Chaos and madness. Sometimes I like them, sometimes not.

Let's think for a while about two people. We'll pretend we're cryptographers and call them Alice and Bob, and let's say they've been involved for about six months. Bob is bored. Alice doesn't thrill him as much as she did back in the early days. (Don't get too hung up on the [traditional in cryptography] names. I'm a guy. I've been Alice in this story. I have never been Bob. I would love to hear comments/criticisms from a Bob, actually. But I digress.)
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