Communication Quote by Whitfield Diffie

We have experienced an utter explosion in investigative techniques. Walk the streets, look at the cameras! They are now recognising people automatically from photos;…

— Whitfield Diffie

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

People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in…

— 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

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be…

— Whitfield Diffie

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

— Whitfield Diffie

The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.

— Whitfield Diffie

It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable.

— Whitfield Diffie

Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.

— 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

In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that…

— Whitfield Diffie

People constantly face problems they've never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million…

— Whitfield Diffie