Skytale Earliest Quote by David Kahn

“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

I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.'

— Adam Draper

“The first hackers were people in software who like solving problems and believe in freedom and helping each other. They produced a lot of…

— CJS Hayward

Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human…

— Austin Grossman

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without…

— Maurice Wilkes

As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.

— Brad Garlinghouse

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

— Frank Press

“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is a miniature…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“General Joseph O. Mauborgne, who became Chief Signal Officer in October, 1937. Mauborgne had long been interested in cryptology. In 1914, as a young…

— 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

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

— Bruce Schneier

“Cryptology served magical purposes frequently throughout the Middle Ages, and even in the Renaissance was still disguising important parts of alchemical formulas.”

— David Kahn