Privacy on the line
Subtitle: the politics of wiretapping and encryption
By: Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau.
Contributors: Landau, Susan Eva.
Edition: Updated and expanded ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780262042406
Subjects: 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.
Other titles: Politics of wiretapping and encryption
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-443) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cryptography; title: Cryptography and public policy; title: National security; title: Law enforcement; title: Privacy : protections and threats; title: Wiretapping; title: Communications in the 1990s; title: Cryptography in the 1990s; title: And then it all changed; title: Après le déluge.