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From: userSUPY@ualtamts.BITNET (Allen George Supynuk)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Request for pointers to articles on "Zero Knowledge Proofs"
Keywords: Zero_Knowledge_Proofs Network_Authentication
Message-ID: <274@ualtamts.BITNET>
Date: 24 Aug 89 15:16:34 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta (MTS)
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A few months ago, John Kohl of Project Athena was kind enough
to give a talk at a local workshop about Kerberos.  During this
talk he mentioned that "Zero Knowledge Proofs" had been considered
(and discarded because the theory was not yet mature) as a method
of performing network authentication.
 
I am in the process of looking for a topic for a Master's Thesis
in Computing Science.  I have searched through several indices of
articles and found no listing under "Zero Knowledge Proofs", though
I found an ACM article on how to send passwords over an open line.
 
Any pointers would be gratefully received.  I'll post a summary to
the net.