Bailey Whitfield Diffie Quotes
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Two people can work on a problem better than one.
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The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.
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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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Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
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I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.
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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 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.
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One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
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Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.
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I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
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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.
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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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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.