Kriptografi untuk akademisi, ha3

Kutipan pidato dari seorang staf NSA (lembaga sandi AS) ini diambil dari paper Neil Koblitz, The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography:

He pointed out that in the real world if your cryptography fails, you lose a million dollars or your secret agent gets killed.
In academia, if you write about a cryptosystem and then a few months later find a way to break it, you’ve got two new papers to add to your résumé!