[13458] in Cypherpunks
Re: MIT TOC SEMINAR--ADI SHAMIR--MONDAY--MAY 16--4:15pm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp)
Wed May 11 11:42:15 1994
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 08:35:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ed Carp <ecarp@netcom.com>
To: Alan Wexelblat <wex@media.mit.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405111509.AA16855@spike.media.mit.edu>
On Wed, 11 May 1994, Alan Wexelblat wrote:
> > ``Visual Cryptography''
> > by Adi Shamir
> > The Weizmann Institute of Science
> >
> > ABSTRACT
> >
> >In this talk we consider a new type of cryptographic scheme, which
> >encodes visual information (printed text, handwritten notes, pictures,
> >etc) in a perfectly secure way which can be decoded directly by the
> >human visual system without any cryptographic computations or knowhow.
> >We extend it into a visual variant of the k out of n secret sharing
> >problem, and analyse the combinatorial aspects of such codes.
Quick, someone apply for a patent, before Rivest and crew steal yet
another idea and try to lock it away from people, like they did RSA...
