Re Stefan Brands ( or Cryptography)

[Quoc Nguyen <qnguyen@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

	Dear Anh Viet Hai
	
	I think you have taken my argument out of the context.
	I was just trying to say that one doesn't need 10 papers
	to get a Ph.D like someone said.
	
	I have nothing against him ( Stefand Brands) at all.
	Indeed, i like his work and currently working on the same	
	topic	 as he was doing.

	Basically his work was on electronic cash using electronic
	wallets using  representation problem. All four of his
	papers based on one  protocol. One for published in 
	Crypto93, One in Latin America'94 and
	one was on NDSS'94(95) (These informations are not
	quite correct) and he got a Ph.D since then. His work was 
	great and he got a PATENT for that.

	He is very famous these days. SO you don't need 10 papers
	to get a Ph.D, do you :(-

	By the ways, anyone out there working on cryptography.
	Please let me know.
	
	Cheers
		Khanh
	
You wrote:
>>  Stefan Brands  only needs 4 papers to get his Ph.D in Netherland.
>>  They all are almost identical.  In case, you have heard about
>>  him. His supervisor is David Chaum, founder of DigiCash.

>I dont know what you mean when you quote his name: Is Stefan Brand a
>good or a bad one ?  I listened to his seminar at the ETH Zurich a year
>(or two) ago. I am a novice in cryptography but have had the feeling
>that he is a great guy.  Anyway he is not a plagiarist like our TS
>Tuye^'n and I also know that all conferences in cryptography have a
>blind reviewing procedure and forbidden any implication about the
>authors' identity (if you do so you risk a rejection without further
>consideration - any cryptographer can confirm that?) so that David
>Chaum's name cannot be a reason.

>Please explain  more about the incidence with his four papers, it's
>interesting! 
>Thank you,
>VH