Wonderful Cryptography Quotes
The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine.
— Benjamin Franklin :-)
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
— Kahlil Gibran |
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A secret between two is a secret of God; a secret among three is everybody's secret.
— French proverb |
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How long do you want these messages to remain secret? I want them to remain secret for as long as men are capable of evil.
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon |
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Computers had their origin in military cryptography.
— Austin Grossman |
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In God we trust. Everybody else we verify using PGP!
— Tim Newsome |
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There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
— Bruce Schneier |
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Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated.
— Adi Shamir |
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Security is a process, not a product.
— Bruce Schneier |
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Beware of Snake Oil Cryptography.
— Philip Zimmermann |
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The enemy knows the system.
— Claude Shannon |
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Don't roll your own Crypto!
— Anonymous |
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Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he(she) himself(herself) can't break.
— Bruce Schneier |
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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
— John von Neumann |
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
— Donald Knuth |
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The problem of randomness (or people are a poor source of entropy).[1][2]
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Rule 1 of cryptanalysis: check for plaintext.
— Robert Morris |
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When in doubt, use brute force.
— Ken Thompson |
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Your voice is always heard.
— NSA |
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We kill people based on metadata.
— Michael Hayden (NSA) |
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If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.
— Philip Zimmermann |
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I do engineering, not religion.
— Daniel J. Bernstein |
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"Why Johnny Can't Encrypt" or "On unusability of PGP and other crypto softwares".[3]
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You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself.
— Ken Thompson |
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The danger of rubber-hose cryptanalysis![4]
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References
- [1] Dilbert Comic Strip on 2001-10-25
- [2] Hacker News discussion
- [3] xkcd: Public Key
- [4] xkcd: Security