A world of strong privacy: Promises and perils of encryption

Social Philosophy and Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 212-228

  Friedman, David ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0041420538     PISSN: 02650525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0265052500003526     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. For the history of cryptography, see David Kahn, The Codebreakers (New York: Macmillan, 1967).
2. In addition to the Clipper Chip, discussed below, there are now two public-domain programs which allow someone equipped with an ordinary personal computer and a modem to decrypt and encrypt speech in real time: PGPfone (released for the Macintosh, with a DOS/Windows version coming) and Nautilus (released for DOS/Windows).
3. The idea of public-key cryptography is due to Martin Helman and Whitfield Diffie. The first successful implementation is due to Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adelman, who patented their algorithms and formed a company, RSA Data Security. See Whitfield Diffie, "The First Ten Years of Public-Key Cryptography," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 76 (1988), pp. 560-77.