For those in the NYC-area, Michael Anshel writes: I'm scheduled to speak to my colleagues in the Physics Dept at CCNY some of whom have co-taught with me Quantum Computing and Cryptography. The announcement is below. THE CITY COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NEW YORK, NY 10031 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS J419 Telephone: 2l2-650-6832 SOLID STATE SEMINAR Date/Time: Wed. Nov.24,1999 12:15 pm Place: Room J418 Speaker: Prof. Michael Anshel Dept. of ComputerSciences,CCNY-CUNY Title: Cryptography for Physicists Abstract: Methods of constructing public key cryptosystems via combinatorial group theory. By all means let interested parties know. I very much appreciate your help Michael http://www-cs.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/~csmma/ PS: My co-workers are my daughter Iris Anshel and her husband (and my son-in-law) Dorian Goldfeld. cc: David Molnar, Bob Karash, Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Iris Anshel and Dorian Goldfeld ----- See Anshel's paper, "Constructing Public Key Cryptosystems Via Combinatorial Group Theory:" http://cryptome.org/pkc-cgt.htm