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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
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.
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.
Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.
Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.
With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
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.
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