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Re: Prof Shamir arrested

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NODE 8a2ccf95Re: Prof Shamir arrested
At 02:56 PM 10/21/96 +0100, Tom Womack <thomas.womack@merton.oxford.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
>A few column inches in the British Independent had Prof Avi Shamir (who I 
>guess is the S in RSA) arrested in Israel, on (I believe) suspicion of 
>involvement in a substantial fraud.

The S in RSA is Adi Shamir.  Do you know if this is the same person? Do you
have any more details?
NODE 181fab63Re: Prof Shamir arrested
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Jim Byrd wrote:

> At 02:56 PM 10/21/96 +0100, Tom Womack <thomas.womack@merton.oxford.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >A few column inches in the British Independent had Prof Avi Shamir (who I 
> >guess is the S in RSA) arrested in Israel, on (I believe) suspicion of 
> >involvement in a substantial fraud.
> 
> The S in RSA is Adi Shamir.  Do you know if this is the same person? Do you
> have any more details?
> 
> 
Or is this the Avi Shamir who broke FEAL-8?

-r.w.
NODE e6a9ffa1Re: Prof Shamir arrested
Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Rabid Wombat wrote:

> Or is this the Avi Shamir who broke FEAL-8?

Can you tell more of this? There is an Windows disk encryption utility
called Teamware Crypto that uses FEAL-8. This program is quite popular in
Europe, distributed and made by ICL Data.

JK - jk@stallion.ee