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Whitfield Diffie


American
June 5, 1944
Scientist
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One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.


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


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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
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I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.
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I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.
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I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.
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I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.
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I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.
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People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
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People constantly face problems they've never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million solutions that are just a little bit different. If computing is being done by fewer resources, there will be enormous security gains by pushing things into standard practices.
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