We need good code, says Diffie at Black Hat Europe

Cryptographer Whitfield Diffie reckons one of the most important things for good cryptography and security in the age of the Internet is good code.

Unfortunately, really good code is generally too expensive to write, he said at the Black Hat Europe conference.

"We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age," Diffie said, comparing the Internet evolution to the first cities formed on earth. "We take our cultural machinery and are moving that into the Internet," told the audience in the opening keynote of Black Hat Europe here this week. Read more...