Classified Quote by Vint Cerf

Just remember, in 1973, we had no digital cameras, no personal computers, no Internet. The thought of putting a billion transistors in a cell…

— Martin Cooper

“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

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

“The world’s governments have many classified layers and outsiders rarely gain access to their hidden secrets. And certainly no common man can get confirmation…

— Dr. Takaaki Musha

“But of any science of cryptanalysis, there was nothing. Only cryptography existed. And therefore cryptology, which involves both cryptography and cryptanalysis, had not yet…

— David Kahn

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

If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will…

— Matt Blaze

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

— Bruce Schneier

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

— Bruce Schneier

I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the…

— Matt Blaze

“All forms of technology, with the exception of paper, are strictly forbidden inside any high-level Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information, or TS/SCI area,”

— Nick Bilton

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

— William Stephenson