Privacy on the Line The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption

Name: Privacy on the Line The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
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ISBN: 9780262042406

ISBN-10: 0262042401

ISBN-13: 9780262042406

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau

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Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as the Cold War culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many of us still take our privacy for granted, even as we become more reliant than ever on telephones, computer networks, and electronic transactions of all kinds. So many of our relationships now use telecommunication as the primary mode of communication that the security of these transactions has become a source of wide public concern and debate. Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau argue that if we are to retain the privacy that characterized face-to-face relationships in the past, we must build the means of protecting that privacy into our communication systems.…

Book details

List price: $7.75
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.848

Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public-key cryptography, is Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway College at the Universityof London.



Preface to the Updated and Expanded Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Acknowledgements



Introduction



Cryptography



Cryptography and Public Policy



National Security



Law Enforcement



Privacy: Protections and Threats



Wiretapping



Communications in the 1990s



Cryptography in the 1990s



And Then It All Changed



Apres le Deluge



Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index