"Consider Shannon. He didn’t do just information theory. Several years before, he did some other good things and some which are still locked up in the security of cryptography."
Shannon's crypto work that is "still [1986] locked up"? This was said (*) by Richard W. Hamming on March 7, 1986. Hamming, who died when he was almost 83 years old in 1998, was then a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He was also a retired Bell Labs scientist. Does anyone about this or what it could be? Or if Hamming was incorrect? (*) http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/wp-uploads/hamming.pdf (BTW, this was a great talk!) Cheers, Ed Gerck --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
