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Are the Crypto Wars Over?
Privacy, Digital Security and the Future of Encryption Policy
BOOK FORUMThursday, April 19, 2001
12:00 p.m.
Featuring Steven Levy, author of Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, and Bruce Schneier, author of Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World.
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For several decades, individuals and organizations concerned with protecting their personal privacy and corporate secrets have been engaged in a heated battle with government officials to gain the right to freely employ encryption techniques and technologies to safeguard their information. While they have won important victories and forced the government to liberalize controls, it remains an open question whether strong cryptography is enough to protect privacy from the many threats posed by an increasingly digital world.
Are federal standards and regulations needed in addition to strong crypto to safeguard personal and corporate information? And have we really seen the end to government efforts to restrict private cryptography? Do domestic and international threats to crypto freedom still exist? In their new books, Steven Levy and Bruce Schneier attempt to provide answers to these elusive questions.
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