Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated.

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.

I start 'The Code Book' with the story of Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot, which was foiled when Mary's enciphered messages fell into the hands of Elizabeth I's codebreakers.

We have to solve the encryption problem. It is not easy.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.

It is clear to me that creating a pathway for decryption only for good guys is technologically stupid. You just can't do that.

But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

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.

In 1973, the only cryptographic technology we could get our hands on was classified.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

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.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.

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

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

You know the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure just for some people.