Status of Cryptography Research in implementation of the EUCD

Ken Brown k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:16:35 +0100


Owen Lewis wrote:

>         -       De minimis will protect academics who go about their research quietly,
> forgo publication but gain in knowledge and wisdom as the fruits of their
> research.

That's not an academic, that's an amateur. You have defined the
difference precisely. Such behaviour no more makes someone an academic
than my wargames with models make me a soldier.

Ken Brown