Good recent books on encryption, privacy, etc.?
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--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: ddfr@shell9.ba.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:39:58 -0800 Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> Sender: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: david friedman <ddfr@BEST.COM> Subject: Good recent books on encryption, privacy, etc.? To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM I am getting ready to teach my seminar on Computers, Crime and Privacy again, and wondering if there is something new that I should substitute for _Building in Big Brother_. Are there any recent books that have a reasonably accessible treatment of encryption, the controversy over regulation, etc.? For that matter, are there any good recent books on computer crime? I may end up simply substituting in a lot of URL's, but I thought it was probably worth including some old technology as well, if available. David Friedman Professor of Law Santa Clara University ddfr@best.com http://www.best.com/~ddfr/ --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You should get Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau's "Privacy on the Line : The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption" MIT Press. If it isn't out yet, it should be out soon. It is excellent. - Joi At 15:05 97/11/21 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
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I am getting ready to teach my seminar on Computers, Crime and Privacy again, and wondering if there is something new that I should substitute for _Building in Big Brother_. Are there any recent books that have a reasonably accessible treatment of encryption, the controversy over regulation, etc.? For that matter, are there any good recent books on computer crime?
I may end up simply substituting in a lot of URL's, but I thought it was probably worth including some old technology as well, if available.
David Friedman Professor of Law Santa Clara University ddfr@best.com http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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--- begin forwarded text From: david friedman <ddfr@BEST.COM> Subject: Good recent books on encryption, privacy, etc.?
I am getting ready to teach my seminar on Computers, Crime and Privacy again, and wondering if there is something new that I should substitute for _Building in Big Brother_. Are there any recent books that have a reasonably accessible treatment of encryption, the controversy over regulation, etc.? For that matter, are there any good recent books on computer crime?
There is a great new book just out, titled "Computers, Crime and Privacy" which is getting rave reviews. It is a compendium of articles by Bruce Schneider, David Chaum, Philip Zimmermann, Tim C. May, Dorothy Denning, Louis J. Freeh, Janet Reno and Jim Bell. To receive a special edition copy signed by all of the above authors, send $29.95 to: Publisher, Electronic Forgery Foundation Electronic Fraud Department, PO BOX 281, Bienfait, Saskatchewan CANADA S0C 0M0 (Please allow 20 years for delivery.) "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" http://bureau42.base.org/public/webworld "InfoWar" http://bureau42.base.org/public/infowar3 "The Final Frontier" http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/carljohn
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