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

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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 capabi...

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Product ID:9780367642488
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:GB
Title:Crypto Wars
Subtitle:The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption
Authors:Author: Craig Jarvis
Page Count:422
Subjects:Coding theory and cryptology, Coding theory & cryptology, Peace studies and conflict resolution, History, Social and ethical issues, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Politics and government, Applied mathematics, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Computer security, Privacy and data protection, Peace studies & conflict resolution, History, Social issues & processes, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Politics & government, Applied mathematics, Legal aspects of IT, Computer security, Privacy & data protection
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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.


Imprint Name:CRC Press
Publisher Name:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2020-12-15