Re: Probably O/T...: Museum of secrets to open warfares bag of tricks

David Hamer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.cryptography.bletchley-park
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 15:16 12/19/04, Geoff Sullivan wrote:
>In message <5.1.1.6.0.20041219104315.009fea00-UThdrVIhI2DH2WqFuJo/[email protected]>, David
>Hamer <[email protected]> writes
>
>>My own museum [NCM] would love to have either or both of these items
>>and we have, half-jokingly, wondered about offering to take them if
>>they become 'orphans'...but again space, funding and a predictable
>>and justifiable outcry from the UK crypto community makes such a
>>offer unlikely :-))
>
>And this predictable outcry is based on what evidence from the UK crypto
>community?

Hi Geoff...

None...it's an extrapolation of the rightful indignation historically
expressed by both the general public and the indigenous art communities
of most countries when items of artistic, historic and cultural significance
are threatened with export...but perhaps you're implying that the crypto
community has no soul :-))

David


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