Whitfield Diffie Quotes

• 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.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Cryptography, Control

• 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.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Problem

• One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Importance

• If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Achieve

• 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.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Cryptography

• 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.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Cryptography, Key

• 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.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Country, Love

• Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don’t make that distinction very much.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Professional, Destination

• Two people can work on a problem better than one.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Problem

• We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Mathematics

Whitfield Diffie (10)

Birth:	5th June, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cryptographer, Researcher

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• Whitfield Diffie
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• 1931 - Thomas Wilson
• 1920 - Paul Scott
• 1921 - Simone Signoret
• 1967 - Matthew Barney

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• 1983 - Thomas S. Gates Jr.
• 1976 - Josef Albers
• 1977 - Nunnally Johnson
• 1969 - Max Eastman
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