Benches Quote by Gene Spafford

Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard…

— Gene Spafford

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because…

— Julian Assange

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

Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on,

— Edward Snowden

“Cryptographers are professional paranoids”

— Jason Fagone

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants…

— Walter Wriston

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

I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these issues. It…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Bruce Schneier

The people working in my field also are quite skeptical of our ability to do this. It ultimately boils down to the problem of…

— Matt Blaze

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

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

— Neal Stephenson