Balance Quote by Jacob Appelbaum

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

— Jacob Appelbaum

“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

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

— Bruce Schneier

“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

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

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

— Mitch Kapor

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

— Neal Stephenson

You don't have to be a genius mathematician to have a career in cyber security, but it certainly helps to be a strong mathematician.

— Simon Singh

Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of…

— Max Keiser

I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow mathematics is getting politicized. We're trying to take the politics out and put the rigor back…

— Scott Bessent

I really didn't understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus?

— Eric Yuan