From: Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 May 94 12:33:39 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: MIT TOC SEMINAR--ADI SHAMIR--MONDAY--MAY 16--4:15pm
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Paul E. Baclace writes:
 > I'm very curious as to how humans can directly decode encrypted
 > pictures.  Do they stare at it for 10 minutes and go "ah, there
 > it is". 

SIRD stereograms might qualify as an encryption method, although many
have been able to view these patterns using a brute-force search by
selectively diverging the eyes.

I don't see how this generalizes to a k of d secret sharing analogue,
unless the viewer is assumed to have k+1 eyes.

nathan