[DuskStar]

> * The use of gender-neutral names like Alex and Jun instead of Alice and Bob. - As long as you are using a variety of names, this seems redundant.

Alice and Bob are actually standard names for cryptography, though. They weren't names that this professor plucked out of thin air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob

[raydev]

Was anyone arguing that the professor made them up?

[DuskStar]

They seem to be arguing that the names can be trivially changed without impacting further education or careers, and the names being used across classes and universities would say that that isn't (trivially) the case.

If he had pulled the names from a hat, it would be trivially the case.