Application Quote by Whitfield Diffie

If you are designing cryptosystems, you've got to think about long-term applications. You've got to try to figure out how to build something that…

— Whitfield Diffie

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

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

Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on,

— Edward Snowden

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 [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

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

— Neal Stephenson

The people working in my field also are quite skeptical of our ability to do this. It ultimately boils down to the problem of…

— Matt Blaze

The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into…

— Bruce Schneier

“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

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