From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 95 19:28:55 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Explaining Zero Knowledge to your children
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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

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