Building in Big Brother: The Cryptographic Policy Debate

This book presents the best readings on cryptographic policy and current cryptography trends. Topics include a survey of cryptography, the new "key escrow" systems, the Government solution, the debate between law enforcement views and civil liberties, and export control analysis. Detailed technological descriptions of promising new software schemes are included as well as analysis of the constitutional issues by legal scholars. Important government cost analyses appear here for the first time…