Quote by Jason Fagone

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

— Neal Stephenson

“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

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

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

“Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.”

— Glenn Greenwald

“This kind of work, particularly in the early stages of a difficult cryptanalysis, is perhaps the most excruciating, exasperating, agonizing mental process known to…

— David Kahn

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

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

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

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

“In this business, I find more value in working with hackers who abstract new realities from cast aside code and concepts than academics who…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology