Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all…

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

— Edward Snowden

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

— Bruce Schneier

“Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Without encryption, you and I wouldn't be able to do our banking online. We wouldn't be able to buy things online, because your credit…

— Tim Cook

Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but…

— Matt Blaze

The new iPhone encryption does not stop them from accessing copies of your pictures or whatever that are uploaded to, for example, Apple's cloud…

— Edward Snowden

I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was important. In…

— Matt Blaze

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where…

— Barton Gellman

The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think…

— Kevin Mitnick

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

— Ted Lieu

On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more…

— Matt Blaze

So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency…

— Matt Blaze

[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software…

— Laura Sydell

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.

— Phil Karn

In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software; later, I…

— Chelsea Manning