Books & Media

Books

Politics of cryptography and privacy:

• Privacy on the Line, The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
  Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, The MIT Press, 1998 ISBN 0-262-04167-7
• Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape
  Philip Agre and Marc Rotenberg, The MIT Press, 1997 ISBN 0-262-01162-x
• Building in Big Brother, The Cryptographic Policy Debate
  edited by Lance Hoffman, Springer Verlag, 1995 ISBN 0-387-94441-9
• The Unwanted Gaze - The Destruction of Privacy in America
  Jeffrey Rosen, Random House, 2000 ISBN 0-679-44546-3
• Database Nation
  Simson Garfinkel, O'Reilly & Associates, 2000 ISBN 0-596-00105-3
• The Official PGP User's Guide
  Philip Zimmermann, The MIT Press, 1995 ISBN 0-262-74017-6
  (Out of date with current PGP software, but still politically interesting)

Technical aspects of cryptography:

• Applied Cryptography, 2nd edition
  Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons, 1996 ISBN 0-471-12845-7
  (If you can only buy one book to get started in crypto, this is the one)
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography
  Alfred Menezes, Paul van Oorschot, and Scot Vanstone, CRC Press, 1996 ISBN 0-8493-8523-7
• Journal of Cryptology
  International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) See www.iacr.org.
• Advances in Cryptology
  (Conference proceedings of the IACR CRYPTO conferences) published yearly by Springer-Verlag. See www.iacr.org.
• Cryptography and Data Security
  Dorothy Denning, Addison-Wesley, 1982 ISBN 0-201-10150-5
  (A good introduction to crypto for beginners, but no longer in print)
• Protect Your Privacy - A Guide for PGP Users
  William Stallings, Prentice Hall, 1995 ISBN 0-13-185596-4
  (Out of date with current PGP software, but technically comprehensive)
• PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
  Simson Garfinkel, O'Reilly & Associates, 1995 ISBN 1-56592-098-8
  (Good technical info on PGP of that era, with mostly correct history of PGP)

History of cryptography:

• The Code Book - The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography
  Simon Singh, Doubleday, 1999 ISBN 0-385-49531-5
• The Codebreakers
  David Kahn, Scribner, 1996
  (updated from the 1967 edition)
• Crypto - How the Code Rebels Beat the Government, Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
  Steven Levy, Viking Penguin Putnam, 2001 ISBN 0-670-85950-8
  (The full-scale account of the Crypto Revolution)

Video

• Cyber Secrets
  Part of the PBS "Life on the Internet" Video Series, 1996 Public Broadcasting System

Multimedia

• Justice Department drops Zimmermann case
  Morning Edition - January 12, 1996
  National Public Radio, Washington DC

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