Whitfield Diffie

Scientist

1944-06-05

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

• 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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• If you depend on a secret for your security, what do you do when the secret is discovered? If it is easy to change, like a cryptographic key, you do so. If it's hard to change, like a cryptographic system or an operating system, you're stuck. You will be vulnerable until you invest the time and money to design another system.

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• People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically.

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• Two people can work on a problem better than one.

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• 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.

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