"This method, seemingly very clever, actually played into our hands! And so it often happens that an apparently ingeni…"

"Few false ideas have more firmly gripped the minds of so many intelligent men than the one that, if they just tried, …"

"The magic words are squeamish ossifrage"

"Feistel and Coppersmith rule. Sixteen rounds and one hell of an avalanche."

"For the computer security community, the moral is obvious: if you are designing a system whose functions include prov…"

"When a cryptanalyst starts out trying to analyze a new algorithm, his first thought is probably: "Yikes. What a mess.…"

"There is also a side benefit: the difference in strength made by even really subtle changes warns us just how tricky …"

"Due to the suspicious nature of crypto users I have a feeling DES will be with us forever, we will just keep adding k…"

"The NSA response was, "Well, that was interesting, but there aren't any ciphers like that.""

"The real work in an attack, at least an attack against a well-designed cipher, is modifying the attack technique so t…"