Quotes About Encryption

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

The transposition of two Letters by five placeings will be sufficient for 32 Differences [and] by this Art a way is opened, whereby a man may expresse and signifie the intentions of his minde, at any distance of place, by objects … capable of a twofold difference onely,

aphoristic posts on the Cypherpunks list, the

WhatsApp has a consistent history - from zero encryption at its inception to a succession of security issues strangely suitable for surveillance purposes.

We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.

This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--

The official Government Random Number Generator used for seeding new encryption keys is a thing of legend, running as it does on a type of punched paper tape that hasn't been manufactured since the 1950s. (We had to invent some really neat hacks using digital cameras to read it into our oldest trailing-edge minicomputers in order to use those numbers . . .)

Quantum Encryption is essential to protect our digital assets and infrastructure from attackers.

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

But more important, he also spotted an encrypted block of code that turned out to be Stuxnet's mother lode—a large .DLL file (dynamic link library) that contained about three dozen other .DLLs and components inside, all wrapped together in layers of encryption like Russian nesting dolls.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

Well. Here's the thing. The beautiful minds out at Bletchley Park cracked the code on that one.

the three-rotor encoding machine that all the Kriegsmarine (War Navy) ships and subs at sea use in lieu of the Enigma.

Kids who are obsessed with locks frequently turn into adults who are obsessed with crypto.

There is a remarkably close parallel between the problems of the physicist and those of the cryptographer. The system on which a message is enciphered corresponds to the laws of the universe, the intercepted messages to the evidence available, the keys for a day or a message to important constants which have to be determined. The correspondence is very close, but the subject matter of cryptography is very easily dealt with by discrete machinery, physics not so easily." —Alan Turing

The FBI hates and fears strong crypto.

These are one-time pads.

CRYPTOLOGY, as the union of cryptography and cryptanalysis is called.

Any number that can be created by fetishistically multiplying 2s by each other, and subtracting the occasional 1, will be instantly recognizable to a hacker.

Why couldn't I fill my hard drive with random bytes, so that individual files would not be discernible? Their very existence would be hidden in the noise, like a striped tiger in tall grass. And we could continually stream random noise back and forth to each other.

I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.

We called the CEO of Apple to see if there was anything they could do to help us. We expected him to say no like usual, but that didn't happen. It turns out that when they're losing a billion dollars a day and thinking they might starve to death, they suddenly remember the back door they built into their encryption." "You've got to be kidding." "Nope. Took 'em less than five minutes.

Attempts to restrict encryption at the state or local levels would only serve to undermine security and economic competitiveness for the entire nation.