“We are definitely going backwards in computer security.”

Crypto will not be broken, it will be bypassed

Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated.

Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity

Fully secure systems don’t exist today and they won’t exist in the future.

The crypto currency community hasn’t decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.

I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity.

They would prefer it if the world were very simple

Security wins many battles but loses the security war.

But then it would be a doom for a cryptographer like myself.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one’s strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don’t know what, lest one tumble.

Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.