Whitfield Diffie People Quotations

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.

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

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.

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