1st Edition

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

By Craig Jarvis Copyright 2021
440 Pages
by CRC Press

440 Pages
by CRC Press

440 Pages
by CRC Press

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.