Research Catalog

Title

Privacy on the line : the politics of wiretapping and encryption / Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau.

Author

Diffie, Whitfield

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Landau, Susan Eva

Description

xvii, 472 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Privacy on the Line, Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau strip away the hype surrounding the policy debate over privacy to examine the national-security, law-enforcement, commercial, and civil-liberties issues. They discuss the social function of privacy, how it underlies a democratic society, and what happens when it is lost. This updated and expanded edition revises their original - and prescient - discussions of policy and technology in light of recent controversies over NSA spying and other government threats to communications privacy."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Politics of wiretapping and encryption

Subject

• Electronic intelligence > United States
• Wiretapping > United States
• Data encryption (Computer science) > Law and legislation > United States
• Electronic surveillance > Political aspects > United States
• Telecommunication > Political aspects > United States
• Privacy, Right of > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-443) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 -- Après le déluge.

ISBN

• 9780262042406 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262042401 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006035514

OCLC

74915665

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library