Pavel Durov Quotes

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

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

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.

We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

I'm a strong believer in strong encryption.

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

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

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.

I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place - absolute privacy - that we have not been to before.

All too often, vital electronic evidence has been made unavailable through encryption that doesn't allow for execution of legal process including court-approved search warrants.

I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping the criminals.

We believe that when technology providers deploy encryption in their products, services, and platforms they need to maintain an appropriate mechanism for lawful access.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.

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.

We can find no successful terrorist attack that would have been prevented by the availability of a lawful decryption access technology ...

The spread of strong consumer encryption technology around the globe is inevitable;

In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.