From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C2F1FF6D for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 01:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759975AbcLBBWI (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2016 20:22:08 -0500 Received: from avasout06.plus.net ([212.159.14.18]:49470 "EHLO avasout06.plus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759959AbcLBBWH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2016 20:22:07 -0500 Received: from [10.0.2.15] ([143.159.212.40]) by avasout06 with smtp id EpMd1u0040srQBz01pMfm8; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 01:21:39 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=Xom4AhN9 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=8Z0saNXTz8GoXi/9Q5ysMA==:117 a=8Z0saNXTz8GoXi/9Q5ysMA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=Exur_P-SfUclBfndDSUA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-AUTH: ramsayjones@:2500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] http: always update the base URL for redirects To: Jeff King References: <20161201090336.xjbb47bublfcpglo@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20161201090414.zgz7pimgpctghbwu@sigill.intra.peff.net> <331124b5-aa2b-773c-23ac-975ad3f50dbf@ramsayjones.plus.com> <20161201225331.GH54082@google.com> <2297C36B9A1441748D7E68363A05F8C5@PhilipOakley> <7cd35131-2e0c-0dff-8864-c099e313251d@ramsayjones.plus.com> <20161202001852.arasy44d6iczeeez@sigill.intra.peff.net> Cc: Junio C Hamano , Philip Oakley , Brandon Williams , git@vger.kernel.org, Jann Horn From: Ramsay Jones Message-ID: <777dfad5-02e2-73a9-fc38-1e6575c100aa@ramsayjones.plus.com> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 01:21:37 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161202001852.arasy44d6iczeeez@sigill.intra.peff.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 02/12/16 00:18, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 12:07:50AM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > >>>> In a British context "Mallory and Irvine" were two (male) climbers who >>>> died on Everest in 1924 (tales of daring...), so it's easy to expect >>>> (from this side of the pond) that 'Mallory' would be male. However he >>>> was really George Mallory. >>>> >>>> Meanwhile that search engine's images shows far more female Mallorys, >>>> so I've learnt something. >>> >>> "baby name Mallory" in search engine gave me several sites, most of >>> them telling me that is a girl's name except for one. >>> >>> Didn't think of doing image search, but that's a good way ;-) >> >> Heh, I didn't think about any of this. I was remembering the >> description of 'Man-in-the-middle Attack' from Applied Cryptography >> (Bruce Schneier) which implies that Mallory is male. > > I admit that I always assumed Applied Cryptography (and other papers) > were always talking about a female. But that's probably because I > started with an assumption about the name in the first place. That > probably came from watching the Family Ties sitcom as a kid; the older > daughter is named Mallory (and if you google it, you can see some > amazing 80's haircuts and clothes). > > We can call her Marsha if you want, instead evoking Brady Bunch memories > of 60's clothing and haircuts. I'm not sure it matters too much, but if you are going to change the name then Eve is also used in the description of Man-in-the-middle (see "Practical Cryptography", Ferguson and Schneier). ATB, Ramsay Jones