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Encryption, trust, and control

These cryptography quotes describe encryption as a real, practical way to keep control over your own files rather than trusting other people with them.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Enough
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

Control
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Nov 07, 2020

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 to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

Importance
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Nov 07, 2020

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 to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

Nov 07, 2020

A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.

Quotes by Naval Ravikant

Mathematics
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Nov 07, 2020

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 and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.

Quotes by James Sanborn

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

Quotes by James Sanborn

Others reflect on how fast public key cryptography moved from theory into everyday communication, while noting some researchers chase clever codes more than real-world use.

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