Quotes About Cryptography

#1. 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.

James Sanborn

#2. 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.

Whitfield Diffie

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

Vladimir Arnold

#4. Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

Jacob Appelbaum

#5. All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).

Vladimir Arnold

#6. Bitcoin is designed around the idea of using cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money, rather than relying on central authorities." (anonymous,

Michael Caughey

#7. 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.

Whitfield Diffie

#8. He stopped, because he wasn't sure what Cryptography had established, and because he needed another moment to haul himself down from the ledges of her high cheekbones, to retreat from the caves of her eyes.

Samuel R. Delany

#9. A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

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

Julian Assange

#11. When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

John Perry Barlow

#12. Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated.

Adi Shamir

#13. 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.

James Sanborn

#14. Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography.

Glenn Greenwald

#15. There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

Bruce Schneier

#16. Computers had their origin in military cryptography - in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.

Austin Grossman

#17. Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

Gene Spafford

#18. 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.

Whitfield Diffie

#19. 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.

Whitfield Diffie

#20. One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Jacob Appelbaum

#21. Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

Bruce Schneier

#22. Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

Julian Assange

#23. I recall thinking that this paper would be the least interesting paper that I will ever be on." Adleman could not have been more wrong. The system, dubbed RSA (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman) as opposed to ARS, went on to become the most influential cipher in modern cryptography.

Simon Singh

#24. This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms
translation: all your bank account are belong to us

Charles Stross

#25. 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 a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security measures, including cryptography, work together.

Bruce Schneier

#26. I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.

Jay Michaelson

#27. If they were not Indian, Devi was sure they'd be divorced.

Amulya Malladi

#28. The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

Yasmin Mogahed

#29. -How long do you want these messages to remain secret?[ ... ]
+I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.

Neal Stephenson

#30. Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Abdul Kalam

#31. There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.

Josh Trank

#32. I pressed him gently on the matter, but he seemed a little reticent, which is maybe what you'd be wise to expect from a cryptologist who was also a practicing hermeticist.

Mark O'Connell

#33. Take care, father," said Bulloch gently, "that what you call murder and robbery may not really be war and conquest, those sacred foundations of empires, those sources of all human virtues and all human greatness.

Anatole France

#34. Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat.

Erin Hunter

#35. The souls of the upright in sleep have vision of a mysterious heaven.

Victor Hugo

#36. The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

Gilbert Adair

#37. What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

Roger L'Estrange

#38. Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

Stephen King

#39. The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Vijay Prashad

#40. When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

Christian Cota

#41. Our best advice in life usually comes from someone we least expect.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#42. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no clash of thought or of opinion makes a barrier between us.

Daphne Du Maurier

#43. Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

Edward Snowden