Change Quote by David Kahn

“soon as a culture has reached a certain level, probably measured largely by its literacy, cryptography appears spontaneously—as”

— David Kahn

“The only writer of the Middle Ages to describe cryptography instead of just using it was Roger Bacon, the English monk of startlingly modern…

— 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

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

All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and…

— Vladimir Arnold

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

— Julian Assange

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

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

“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

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

— Bruce Schneier

“Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have compromised any…

— Bruce Schneier

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