If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society. — 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
