[cryptography] Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference

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

Re: [cryptography] Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference

I doubt this is anything to do with cryptography. I would suspect it is more to do with jobs / science debate that most countries have every time the jobs market gets tough or the science numbers start to look like banana republic. The general knee-jerk response to MSM angst by the