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Whitfield Diffie

American Scientist

Born: Jun 5, 1944

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Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome. Whitfield Diffie

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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. Whitfield Diffie

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

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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. Whitfield Diffie

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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. Whitfield Diffie

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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. Whitfield Diffie

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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. Whitfield Diffie

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If you are designing cryptosystems, you've got to think about long-term applications. You've got to try to figure out how to build something that is secure against technology in the next century that you cannot even imagine. Whitfield Diffie

I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom. Whitfield Diffie

Intellectual work is essentially a lonely process, and if you can find a way of doing something so that you're in company without being disturbed, that, for me, is the critical thing. I often get to feel isolated so often if I'm sitting either where there aren't people or isn't a view. Whitfield Diffie

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If you depend on a secret for your security, what do you do when the secret is discovered? If it is easy to change, like a cryptographic key, you do so. If it's hard to change, like a cryptographic system or an operating system, you're stuck. You will be vulnerable until you invest the time and money to design another system. Whitfield Diffie

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It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable. Whitfield Diffie

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