Explaining Zero Knowledge to your children

Karl L. Barrus klbarrus at infocom.net
Fri Sep 15 19:20:13 PDT 1995


At 08:18 PM 9/14/95 +0200, you 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.

I think you are refering to Quisquater's (sp?) explanation, which is in
terms of Ali Baba and a magic cave.  A functionally similar explanation is
in Schneier's Applied Crypto, pp. 85-86.

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Karl L. Barrus <klbarrus at infocom.net>







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