Re: MIT TOC SEMINAR--ADI SHAMIR--MONDAY--MAY 16--4:15pm

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>                         Monday, May 16, 1994
>      Refreshments at 4:00pm, Talk at 4:15pm in NE43-2nd Floor Lounge
>
>                        ``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.
>
>Joint work with Moni Naor.
>
>Host: Ron Rivest

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...