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Bruce Schneier

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There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
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Bruce Schneier (1996). "Applied Cryptography 2nd edition Source Code in C". John Wiley & Sons. 

 
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