At 6:18 PM 9/14/95, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

There is a paper about explaining Zero Knowledge methods in simple words. It's titled "Explainig Zero Knowledge Authentication to your children" or something similar. It's said to be in the proceedings of any conference. Does anybody know where to find it?

Schneier describes the "cave" analogy in his book, on p. 85, and gives a reference: Quisquater, Guilou, Berson, "How to Explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to your Children," Advances in Cryptology--CRYPTO '89 Proceedings. The paper is only a couple of pages long and would make a nice scan project for someone, as it has no equations. But Schneier is the easiest way to read up on it. --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."