I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

  • -- Whitfield Diffie 威特菲尔德·迪菲

我理解了公钥密码学原理的重要性,但它的发展速度远远超过了我的预期。我没想到它会成为先进通信技术的中流砥柱。

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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.

我认为密码学是一种不需要你信任别人的技术——如果你加密了你的文件,你就可以选择是否交出你的文件。

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

对于作家来说,把他们的作品重点放在世界大事上总是一个错误,因为他们的行动如此迅速和不可预测,阿富汗的情况就证明了这一点。

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.

许多从事密码学工作的人对真正的应用程序问题没有深入的关注。他们正试图发现一些足够聪明的东西来写论文。

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

我认为真正有效的是针对关键领导节点的地方级别的个人目标。