Crypto
Subtitle: how the code rebels beat the government, saving privacy in the digital age
By: Steven Levy
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780670859504
Subjects: Geheimschrift; Computer security; Cryptography; Databescherming; Computerbeveiliging; Computercriminaliteit
Description: From the author who made "hacker" a household word comes a groundbreaking book about the most hotly debated subject of the digital age. "Crypto" concerns privacy in the information age and about the nerds and visionaries who, nearly 20 years ago, predicted that the Internet's greatest virtue--free access to information--was also its most perilous drawback: a possible end to privacy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: The loner; title: The standard; title: Public key; title: Selling crypto; title: Patents and keys; title: Crypto anarchy; title: The clipper chip; title: Slouching toward crypto; title: Epilogue: the open secret.