Whitfield Diffie Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.”

“Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.”

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

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

“Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer.”

“I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.”

“I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.”

“It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.”

“We have experienced an utter explosion in investigative techniques. Walk the streets, look at the cameras! They are now recognising people automatically from photos; we have DNA fingerprinting, infrascan photos that can identify you from the veins in your face.”

“Two people can work on a problem better than one.”