Cryptography Quotes

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

Technology, Public, Expect

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

Deep, Real, Trying

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

Control, Thought, Choice

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

Work, Time, Science

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

Used, Less, Found

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