TY - GEN AB - For the first time in history, everyone - Third World freedom fighters to urban drug dealers - can communicate in secrecy via unbreakable codes made available by advances in cryptography and computer technology. As the welcome and unwelcome consequences of this new technology begin to dawn on governments worldwide, responses have varied from stringent regulation to laissez faire liberalism. Written by a former General Counsel of the National Security Agency and an expert in cryptography law, this text explores the policy and legal issues raised by the democratization of cryptography and offers a guide to the ways in which the law of cryptography translates issues of trust into standards for lawful conduct. AU - Baker, Stewart A. AU - Hurst, Paul R. CN - K564.C6 ID - 22764 KW - Data encryption (Computer science) KW - INFORMATION SECURITY KW - CRYPTOGRAPHY KW - E-COMMERCE KW - ENCRYPTION N1 - Electronic updates of this book may be found at : http://www.steptoe.com/crypto.nsf;. N2 - For the first time in history, everyone - Third World freedom fighters to urban drug dealers - can communicate in secrecy via unbreakable codes made available by advances in cryptography and computer technology. As the welcome and unwelcome consequences of this new technology begin to dawn on governments worldwide, responses have varied from stringent regulation to laissez faire liberalism. Written by a former General Counsel of the National Security Agency and an expert in cryptography law, this text explores the policy and legal issues raised by the democratization of cryptography and offers a guide to the ways in which the law of cryptography translates issues of trust into standards for lawful conduct. SN - 9041106359 T1 - The limits of trust :cryptography, governments, and electronic commerce / TI - The limits of trust :cryptography, governments, and electronic commerce / ER -