[aidgodkart]

“The name of Boo Barkee, who lived in Ithaca, NY, is known for several papers he published alone (Barkee 1988) and with his colleagues (Barkee, Dennis, and Wang 1990, Barkee, Can, Ecks, Moriarty, and Ree 1994). As one can read in the work of Kreuzer and Robbiano (2005): [...] The truth is that Boo Barkee was a dog belonging to Moss Sweedler, who while writing his paper on cryptography decided to use his dog’s name as a pseudonym. At least two of Barkee’s coauthors were using fake names too: Deh Cac Can was a pen name of D. Naccache, and Theo Moriarty was in fact Teo Mora. Julia Ecks and Richard Francis Ree have not disclosed their identities” — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00283-017-9763-...

[reifyx]

Thanks for the reference. Haven't looked into this in a few years, cool to see something has shown up about it now. I guess Sweedler was just having some fun then?

Still curious about the Trithemius quote and if it has any particular relevance to the paper.