A5 Papers

[Peter Gutmann]

"Spicer, John" <john.spicer@roke.co.uk>

>I have just checked on our "IEL" a CD ROM based library of all IEE and IEEE
>journals, conferences, etc.
>The Colloquium took place as advertised on 03.06.94 and S J Shepherd
>presented a paper "Public key stream ciphers", which had more to do with
>Quadratic Residue Ciphers than GSM.
>The two requested papers were not apparent in either the contents or printed
>abstracts.  Nor could I find reference to any other publication by S J
>Shepherd under the auspices of IEE or IEEE.
>There were several well known academics chairing and presenting at this
>Colloquium, it's possible they might have a memory or record of the
>requested papers.  I suspect though, that the publication reference is in
>error.

It's not an error, he was going to present them but was, uh, persuaded not to 
at the last minute by GCHQ.

Peter.