A5 Papers

[John Young]

Peter Gutmann wrote:

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

That's what Dr. Shepherd intimated in correspondence. 

I muse that gchq-awful bind is the reason for coded bold-facing 
COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE for the two papers as listed 
on his Web site (from which we got the citations):

   http://vader.brad.ac.uk/finance/SJShepherd.html

Having worked hard to prepare them then denied the public 
response reward just out of reach, Simon says look at these
and weep at what we dual-use cryptographers must eat 
zipped-lip to feed our families yawning maws.