Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct…

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

— Caroline Lucas

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

— John Lewis

Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers…

— Howard Zinn

Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

— Bruce Schneier

Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated.

— Adi Shamir

With original cryptography, you are just trying to secure one narrow thing - say, communications - and you are trying to secure it from…

— Nick Szabo

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will…

— Bruce Schneier

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a…

— Gene Spafford

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it…

— Whitfield Diffie

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write…

— Whitfield Diffie

I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the…

— Matt Blaze

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control…

— Whitfield Diffie

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

— Bruce Schneier

“The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles.…

— Julian Assange