Whitfield Diffie Quotes

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.
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.
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.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
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.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
Two people can work on a problem better than one.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.
Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer.
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.
I call up Amazon. It seems to me they do a major thing wrong, right. I mean, they protect me against the loss of a $50 liability I have of something on my credit card, but they do nothing to protect me against somebody who is watching to see what books I'm interested in, what new perversions I've developed.
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.
I guess, in a very real sense, I'm a Gnostic. I had been looking all my life for some great mystery... I think somewhere deep in my mind is the notion that if I could learn just the right thing, I would be saved.
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.
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.
I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.
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