On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
"Trouble and Her Friends" has some good treatment of cryptographically protected subcultures, though that's more as redeeming-social-value for a book that's written for genre.
Yes, that had been nagging at me. I haven't read it in years so didn't want to speak up and find that I'd confused it with some other book...but I remember it being really good.
Etizoni is a very technical boy. Unfortunately, his value system led him to invent "Fair Cryptography" (that's "fair" as in "Fair Trade", not "fair" as in "actually fair to anybody" :-), which covers a couple of variants on key escrow.
Hmm. So this explains all those papers on "fair cryptosystems." Well, at least one paper (and patent!) by Micali... -David