Whitfield Diffie Quotes
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
Levy, Steven. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age. Viking, 2001, p. 36.
Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie, ForMemRS, is an American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper New Directions in Cryptography introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that helped solve key distribution—a fundamental problem in cryptography. Their technique became known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange. The article stimulated the almost immediate public development of a new class of encryption algorithms, the asymmetric key algorithms.
