Crypto Wars - Craig Jarvis

Crypto Wars

The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
422 Seiten
2020
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-64245-7 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
CryptoWars offers a history of the half century contest between the US government and its citizens to control digital cryptography, a technology allowing citizens to place their communications beyond the State’s reach, thus undermining law enforcement and intelligence capabilities.
The crypto wars have raged for half a century.

In the 1970s, digital privacy activists prophesied the emergence of an Orwellian State, made possible by computer-mediated mass surveillance. The antidote: digital encryption.

The U.S. government warned encryption would not only prevent surveillance of law-abiding citizens, but of criminals, terrorists, and foreign spies, ushering in a rival dystopian future.

Both parties fought to defend the citizenry from what they believed the most perilous threats. The government tried to control encryption to preserve its surveillance capabilities; privacy activists armed citizens with cryptographic tools and challenged encryption regulations in the courts.

No clear victor has emerged from the crypto wars. Governments have failed to forge a framework to govern the, at times conflicting, civil liberties of privacy and security in the digital age—an age when such liberties have an outsized influence on the citizen–State power balance. Solving this problem is more urgent than ever.

Digital privacy will be one of the most important factors in how we architect twenty-first century societies—its management is paramount to our stewardship of democracy for future generations. We must elevate the quality of debate on cryptography, on how we govern security and privacy in our technology-infused world. Failure to end the crypto wars will result in societies sleepwalking into a future where the citizen–State power balance is determined by a twentieth-century status quo unfit for this century, endangering both our privacy and security.

This book provides a history of the crypto wars, with the hope its chronicling sets a foundation for peace.

Dr Craig Jarvis is an independent researcher specialising in the nexus of international security and technology. Craig is the author of Crypto Wars, a political history of encryption, has written extensively on cyber intelligence, and is soon to publish a book on cyberterrorism. Craig guest lectures at Royal Holloway, University of London, and University of Oxford. Craig sits on the Offensive Cyber Working Group's College of Experts, and holds a PhD in cyber security and history.

Preface: Digital Privacy

Prologue: A New Cryptological Era

Chapter I: The Crypto Wars

Chapter II: A History of Communications Revolutions

Chapter III: The Cypherpunks

Chapter IV: Crypto War I: The Data Encryption Standard (DES)

Chapter V: Crypto War I: The Battle for Academic Freedom

Chapter VI: Crypto War II: Digital Signature Standard & Key Escrow

Chapter VII: Crypto War II: Export Battles

Chapter VIII: Crypto Wars III: The Snowden Era Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Informatik Netzwerke Sicherheit / Firewall
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Theorie / Studium
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Angewandte Mathematik
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht IT-Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 0-367-64245-X / 036764245X
ISBN-13 978-0-367-64245-7 / 9780367642457
Zustand Neuware
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