Cypherpunk Quotes on Nostr: "I never understood the classical notion of a key distribution center, which is a ...
"I never understood the classical notion of a key distribution center, which is a trusted resource that you have to share."
— Whitfield Diffie (ITAS Interview, 1992)
#cryptography #trust
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