Whitfield Diffie Quotes

Security is a human problem.

Accessibility and openness are good politics but bad security.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

I'm just not security-minded.

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

Nothing is absolute in security.

Perfect security means nobody’s there at all.

The first rule about security is that you never talk about security.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

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.

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

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Data leaks are impossible to reverse, so the best strategy is to prevent intruders from having prolonged, unfettered access to the systems in the first place.

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.