Quote by Christof Paar

“But of any science of cryptanalysis, there was nothing. Only cryptography existed. And therefore cryptology, which involves both cryptography and cryptanalysis, had not yet…

— David Kahn

“The task of the cryptanalysts consisted primarily of reconstructing the wiring and switches of the coding wheels—a task made more burdensome by the daily…

— David Kahn

“The Data Encryption Standard (DES) has been by far the most popular block cipher for most of the last 30 years. Even though it…

— Christof Paar

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

— Eric S. Raymond

“In the 1970s and 1980s, though, mathematicians at Stanford and MIT made a series of breakthroughs that made it possible, for the first time,…

— Nathaniel Popper

“This kind of work, particularly in the early stages of a difficult cryptanalysis, is perhaps the most excruciating, exasperating, agonizing mental process known to…

— David Kahn

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

— Bruce Schneier

In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.

— Vint Cerf

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory…

— Anonymous

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of…

— Alexander Grothendieck

When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.

— James Cronin

“In April 1977, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman spent Passover at the house of a student, and had consumed significant amounts of Manischewitz wine before…

— Simon Singh