"In view of the serious implications of such a law, I abandoned my plans to charge for PGP in the hopes of achieving wider distribution."
— Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003)
#pgp #encryption #government #backdoors
Cypherpunk Quotes
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"Bitcoin is not just a currency. It's a platform for trust."
— Andreas Antonopoulos (The Internet of Money, 2016)
#bitcoin #trust
"They have built a legal paradigm that presumes records collected about us do not belong to us."
— Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)
#privacy #legal
"We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence."
— Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #government #corporations
"If you have a certain amount of time to spend on advancing the cause of greater personal privacy, can you do it better by using the time to learn about cryptography and develop the tools to protect privacy, or by convincing your government not to invade your privacy?"
— Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995)
#privacy #cryptography
"I wanted to empower people to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness."
— Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015)
#freedom #empowerment
"That cryptographic work is deeply tied to politics is a claim so obvious that only a cryptographer could fail to see it."
— Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015)
#cryptography #politics
"There's a real possibility that all the noise about 'governance,' 'regulation' and 'blockchain' will effectively create a surveillance state, a dossier society."
— Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018)
#surveillance #regulation #blockchain #government
"The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us."
— Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010)
#whistleblowing #transparency #leaks
"The best defense against abusive government is an informed and active citizenry."
— Whitfield Diffie (Congressional testimony, 1993)
#government #defense
"WE STAND TODAY on the brink of a revolution in cryptography."
— Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman (New Directions in Cryptography, 1976)
#cryptography #revolution #privacy #publickey
"If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#privacy #encryption #law
"A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy."
— Tim May (The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, 1988)
#cryptoanarchy #manifesto #cypherpunk
"Governments see their powers eroded by these technologies, and are taking various well-known steps to try to limit the use of strong crypto by their subjects."
— Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)
#government #cryptography #regulation
"In the long run, the real battle will be the one fought in defense of technologies that protect privacy. That one we might win."
— David D. Friedman (The Case for Privacy, 2005)
#privacy #cryptography #freedom
"I had this view of cryptography in which the critical value of cryptography was that you didn't have to trust other people."
— Whitfield Diffie (ITAS Interview, 1992)
#cryptography #trust #autonomy
"Pretty Good Privacy empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#pgp #privacy #empowerment
"I have been working on ideas to display the information in digital cash in some other way that is more esthetic. It would be nice if the display somehow only worked for correctly signed cash notes, with forged cash not displaying anything nice."
— Hal Finney (The Beauty of ECash, 1994)
#digitalcash #cryptography
"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
— Bruce Schneier (Secrets and Lies, 2000)
#security
"Cryptography can make possible a world in which people have control over information about themselves, not because government has granted them that control, but because only they possess the cryptographic keys to reveal that information. This is the world we are working to create."
— Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993)
#cryptography #privacy #government