Another published location. http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/crypto/publications/1990/alibaba.pdf
----- Original Message ----- From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Digital Bearer Settlement List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:10 AM Subject: How to Explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to Your Children > http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/0435/04350628.htm > > > > > > How to Explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to Your Children > > Jean-Jacques Quisquater1, Louis C. Guillou2, and Thomas A. Berson3 > > 1Philips Research Laboratory, Avenue Van Becelaere, 2, B-1170 Brussels, Belgium > 2CCETT/EPT, BP 59, F-35512 Cesson Sévigné, France > 3Anagram Laboratories, P.O. Box 791, Palo Alto CA 94301, USA > > Abstract. Know, oh my children, that very long ago, in the Eastern city of > Baghdad, there lived an old man named Ali Baba. Every day Ali Baba would go > to the bazaar to buy or sell things. This is a story which is partly about > Ali Baba, and partly also about a cave, a strange cave whose secret and > wonder exist to this day. But I get ahead of myself ... > > One day in the Baghdad bazaar a thief grabbed a purse from Ali Baba who > right away started to run after him. The thief fled into a cave whose > entryway forked into two dark winding passages: one to the left and the > other to the right. > > Ali Baba did not see which passage the thief ran into. Ali Baba had to > choose which way to go, and he decided to go to the left. The left-hand > passage ended in a dead end. Ali Baba searched all the way from the fork to > the dead end, but he did not find the thief. Ali Baba said to himself that > the thief was perhaps in the other passage. So he searched the right-hand > passage, which also came to a dead end. But again he did not find the > thief. ``This cave is pretty strange,'' said Ali Baba to himself, ``Where > has my thief gone?'' > > LNCS 0435, p. 628 ff. > > Full article in PDF (246 KB) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Online publication: May 18, 2001 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > © Springer Verlag Heidelberg 1990 > -- > ----------------- > R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> > 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA > "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, > [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to > experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Cryptography Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]