The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.
Whitfield DiffieRead
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
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What this quote means
Public key cryptography has rapidly become essential in communications technology, surpassing initial expectations.
In this quote, Whitfield Diffie reflects on how public key cryptography, which he recognized as an important concept, has evolved and integrated into the fabric of advanced communications at a pace that surprised him. This highlights the transformative impact of technology and the unpredictable nature of its advancement and application in society.
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Public Key CryptographyTechnologyCommunicationsAdvancedImportance
In practice
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In a tech conference discussing secure communication, you might say, 'As Whitfield Diffie noted, the pace at which public key cryptography has developed has been astonishing.'
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All quotes →In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that way in the future.
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It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.
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It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable.
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