Mary Fisher loathed Whitfield Diffie on sight.
An edition of Crypto
(2001)
Crypto
how the code rebels beat the government, saving privacy in the digital age
by Steven Levy
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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.
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Table of Contents
The loner
The standard
Public key
Selling crypto
Patents and keys
Crypto anarchy
The clipper chip
Slouching toward crypto
Epilogue: the open secret.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-344) and index.
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