It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents?… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
If you depend on a secret for your security, what do you do when the secret is discovered? If it is easy to change, like a cryptographic key, you do so. If it's hard to change, like a cryptographic system… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
We have experienced an utter explosion in investigative techniques. Walk the streets, look at the cameras! They are now recognising people automatically from photos;… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
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 Copy Share
People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
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 Copy Share
No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels. — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable. — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome. — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
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 Copy Share
In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
People constantly face problems they've never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share
