Accept Quote by Whitfield Diffie

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use…

— Joe Lieberman

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 understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it…

— Whitfield Diffie

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

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold

All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and…

— Vladimir Arnold

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

— Julian Assange

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory…

— Anonymous

“In April 1977, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman spent Passover at the house of a student, and had consumed significant amounts of Manischewitz wine before…

— Simon Singh

“The only writer of the Middle Ages to describe cryptography instead of just using it was Roger Bacon, the English monk of startlingly modern…

— David Kahn

“Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have compromised any…

— 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