• “The current way which organisations approach security can be recognised as an underlying market failure which consists of fire fighting security problems, silo'd implementation of technologies, uncontrolled application development practices and a failure to address systemic problems. Organisations tend to deal with one problem at a time that results in the deployment of point solutions to treat singular problems. This failure is typical of an uncontrolled marketplace evolving with little or no co-ordination.”

    The British Government’s Technology Strategy Board, 2008
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  • "Security and dependability issues typically go along with the life cycle of a technology.  The trend to first deploy a technology and later fix its problems – typically driven by economic motives – is gradually making way for security by design, resulting in improved security at the beginning of the life cycle."

    SecurIST, “D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy”, January 2007
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  • “Never underestimate the attention, risk, money and time that an opponent will put into reading traffic.”

    Robert Morris, former Chief Scientist of the US National Security Agency (NSA), National Computer Security Center, "Crypto '95 invited talks by R. Morris and A. Shamir", 1995

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quote: ECRYPT, 30 to 50 year security should take quantum computers into consideration

However, with the emergence of Shor's efficient quantum algorithm for factoring integers and computing discrete logarithms it became evident that the power of quantum mechanics also had implications for classical cryptography based on computational assumptions. From the day of the first construction in a laboratory of just one quantum computer with registers large enough to factor contemporary RSA moduli, the RSA cryptosystem will be rendered more or less useless, and very few people and institutions would feel comfortable using the system, even for increased key-lengths.

We have no guarantee that this day is far into the future.

One often hears recommendations for key-sizes of public-key cryptosystems needed to obtain security for 30 years and even 50 years. Anyone wanting a real security of this magnitude should probably take the construction of the quantum computer into consideration.

ECRYPT, “D.PROVI.3 – First Summary Report on Unconditionally Secure Protocols”, January 2005
 

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