Whitfield Diffie Quotes

I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

When you put new security measures in place there is a greater time lag than before.

There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur.

We have the worst security!

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

The gatekeepers must change.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.

It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

What good does it do to spend millions to protect ourselves against espionage if our secrets just leak away.

The more urgent the message, the more slowly it moves—but those are the penalties of security.

Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

Too many public and private entities simply don't take advantage of tools already at their disposal to protect themselves from hackers. No amount of information sharing will help solve that problem.

If the leaks continue, we are strong as our weakest link. And I'll say it a little differently in a pun. We're strong as our weakest leak.

We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.

If Israeli intelligence that has been shared with the United States - whether the National Security Agency, the C.I.A., the Defense Department, or the White House - is not safely guarded, Israel faces a major threat to its security. Cooperation with America's agencies is deeply embedded in Israel's intelligence community.