Change Quote by David Kahn

“The technique was at least moderately well known, for Ibn Khaldūn wrote in The Muqaddimah: “Occasionally, skillful secretaries, though not the first to invent…

— David Kahn

“Cryptographers are professional paranoids”

— Jason Fagone

“But all those who used their knowledge in a bid to enact social change saw cryptography as a tool to enhance individual privacy and…

— Paul Vigna

“Interestingly, differential cryptanalysis was first discovered in the research community in 1990. At this point, the IBM team declared that the attack was known…

— Christof Paar

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's…

— Alex Stamos

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

— Bruce Schneier

“central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.”

— Steven Levy

So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency…

— Matt Blaze

“Smart, rabidly paranoid people are the backbone of cryptology,”

— Neal Stephenson

“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

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

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