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