American - Scientist | June 5, 1944 -
Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.
Whitfield Diffie
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I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
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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.
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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.
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I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician.
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One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
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I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.
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The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.
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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
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Two people can work on a problem better than one.
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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
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I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.
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