• "Some physicists predicted that within the next 10 to 20 years quantum computers will be built that are sufficiently powerful to implement Shor’s ideas and to break all existing public key schemes. Thus we need to look ahead to a future of quantum computers, and we need to prepare the cryptographic world for that future.”

    Prof Seth Lloyd of MIT, MIT Review 2008

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  • "First and foremost, there is no proper excuse for continued use of a broken cryptographic primitive (MD5) when sufficiently strong alternatives are readily available, for example SHA-2. Secondly, there is no substitute for security awareness." ... "Advice from experts should be taken seriously and early in the process. In this case, MD5 should have been phased out soon after 2004."

    Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Wegerr, "MD5 considered harmful today - Creating a rogue CA certificate", December 2008
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  • “Systems built without requirements cannot fail; They merely offer surprises. Usually unpleasant!

    Robert Morris, former Chief Scientist of the US National Security Agency (NSA), National Computer Security Center, 1995

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Biographies
Unofficial biographies compiled by Synaptic Laboratories on active individuals and cryptographic teams in the hardware arena. Includes links to selected publications. 
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1 biography: Peter SHOR
2 biography: Lov GROVER
3 biography: Geordie ROSE
4 biography: Andrew SHIELDS
5 biography: Seth LLOYD
6 biography: Scott AARONSON
7 biography: US Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA)
 

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