“ 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
“ 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. Whitfield Diffie
“ The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow. 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. Whitfield Diffie
“ 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 exce… Whitfield Diffie
“ 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 sy… Whitfield Diffie
