Re: 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?

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.

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
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Jim Byrd
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Jüri Kaljundi
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Rabid Wombat