Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference

[Eugen Leitl]

http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/10/shamir/

Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference

Categories: Science, Secrecy

In this email message to colleagues, Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir
recounts the difficulties he faced in getting a visa to attend the 2013
Cryptologic History Symposium sponsored by the National Security Agency. Adi
Shamir is the “S” in the RSA public-key algorithm and is “one of the finest
cryptologists in the world today,” according to historian David Kahn. The NSA
Symposium begins tomorrow. For the reasons described below, Dr. Shamir will
not be there.