Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime.

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be