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Quotes About Encryption

User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.
~ Christopher A. Wray
It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable.
~ Whitfield Diffie
Ultimately, taxpayers deserve a government that leverages technology to serve them, rather than one that deploys unsecure, decades old technology, and keeps sensitive information in non-encrypted databases.
~ Will Hurd
His latest theory about his dealings with women isn't that he's lost his reason or that women are illogical (Deb, for instance, displays exemplary thought processes;) it's just that a certain vital part of the interface between them is strongly encrypted and requires some workaround.
~ Adam Felber
Alan Turing installed something known as a bombe machine, an electro-mechanical device which made hundreds
~ Andrew Roberts
WhatsApp deliberately obfuscates their apps' binaries to make sure no one is able to study them thoroughly.
~ Pavel Durov
Looking back, there hasn't been a single day in WhatsApp's 10 year journey when this service was secure.
~ Pavel Durov
WhatsApp doesn't only fail to protect your WhatsApp messages - this app is being consistently used as a Trojan horse to spy on your non-WhatsApp photos and messages.
~ Pavel Durov
We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp - and there are plenty of others like that - don't provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other.
~ Amber Rudd
Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.
~ Ted Lieu
Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
~ Barton Gellman
The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.
~ Michael Hayden
Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated.
~ Morten Tyldum
Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
~ Noam Chomsky
Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all online. It is key to growing the digital economy and delivering public services online. But, like many powerful technologies, encrypted services are used and abused by a small minority of people.
~ Amber Rudd
The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.
~ Pavel Durov
ISIS' key social media-encrypted platform is Telegram, which is engineered by a Berlin-based tech company that can simply ignore the rulings of American federal judges as well as legislation passed by the U.S. Congress.
~ Peter Bergen
One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.
~ Pavel Durov
Many of today's foremost Russian mobsters have Ph.D.'s in mathematics, engineering, or physics, helping them to acquire an expertise in advanced encryption and computer technology.
~ Robert I. Friedman
Recently proposed algorithms that involved hiding an encryption key at the intersection point of a multi-dimensional lattice should prove unbreakable, even for a quantum computer.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Instead, she had revealed the existence of what everyone else recognized as the perfect skeleton key, able to unlock every digital door in existence.
~ Douglas E. Richards
A cybersecurity expert can become well versed in technical details such as conducting penetration tests, using encryption tools, setting up firewalls, and much more—and still be unable to realistically assess their own skills at forecasting future events.
~ Douglas W. Hubbard
Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.
~ John T. Chambers
Strong encryption enables commerce and protects us online.
~ Priti Patel