Prof Shamir arrested

Rabid Wombat wombat at mcfeely.bsfs.org
Mon Oct 21 16:36:15 PDT 1996




On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Jim Byrd wrote:

> At 02:56 PM 10/21/96 +0100, Tom Womack <thomas.womack at 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.







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