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From: jeroen@mcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Closing the Barn Door, American Style
Message-ID: <7288@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 09:15:52 EST
Article-I.D.: boring.7288
Posted: Fri Feb 27 09:15:52 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Mar-87 23:00:21 EST
References: <4247@utcsri.UUCP>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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Summary: Shamir already gave a lecture on his paper in the US

In article <4247@utcsri.UUCP>, outer@utcsri.UUCP (Richard Outerbridge) writes:
> 	Even if you're not interested in using the new schemes, you might as
> well request a copy of the enclosed paper.  Sure to be a collectors' item!
> 		HOW TO PROVE YOURSELF:
> 	PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO IDENTIFICATION
> 		AND SIGNATURE PROBLEMS
> 		Amos Fiat and Adi Shamir
> 		Department of Applied Mathematics
> 		The Weizmann Institute of Science
> 		Rehevot 76100, Israel
> 		May 1986 (Extended Abstract)
> Hey!  You Americans!!  What's going >on< down there?

There is no need to write to Israel for getting the paper.
Shamir gave a talk at Crypto 86, held in Santa Barbara, CA in
August 1986.
The extended abstract was included in the book of abstracts handed out
at the conference, so just find somebody who has been there.
(I wasn't there, but my colleagues were.)
This fact make the story even stranger; apparently they want to
keep something secret that is in fact already public.

For me Outerbridge's last sentence is the most important one.

Jeroen van de Graaf.