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Information On Cryptography And Effects On Society?

Posted by Cliff on from the societal-effects-due-to-technology dept.

Plasmoid asks: "I am doing a school project on cryptography and its effects on society. I am looking for information on my topic. Any sort of information would be great(i.e. books, Web site, people, magazines, etc.). If you or someone you know can speak to me about my topic please e-mail me. I plan to cover NSA, Echelon, other misc. paranoia, current world treaties/laws and important historic events. Any help would be greatly appreciated." Now this sounds like a school project I wish I could work on. I wonder if Plasmoid would mind sharing the results when he's finished.

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  1. Bibliography by harshaw · · Score: 5

    Hey Plasmoid,

    I did a little work in this area in school as well. I agree with an earlier poster that the resources are out there and you should draw your own conclusions. The paper I wrote focused on the influence of the NSA with the development of DES and the growth of the nascent crypto community. I think I can help you by giving you a bibliography:

    Bamford, James. The Puzzle Palace. Penguin Books Ltd., Middlesex England. 1983.

    Brankstand, D.K. et al. "Report on the Workshop on Cryptography in Support of Computer Security." NBSIR 77-1291, National Bureau of Standards, Sep 21-22, 1976, September 1977.

    Coppersmith, D. "The Data Encryption Standard (DES) and its strength against attacks." IBM Journal of Research and Development. V. 38, N. 3. May 1994. 243-250.

    Denning, Peter J. "Government Classification of Private Ideas." Communications of the ACM. March 1981. 105.

    "Encryption Technology, Privacy, and National Security." Technology Review. August September 1986. [get author and page number]

    Foerstel, Herbert N. Secret Science: Federal Control of American Science and Technology. Praeger Publishers, Westport CT. 1993.

    "The Government's Classification of Private Ideas". Hearings, 96th Congress, February 28, March 21, August 1980. (Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, 1981), 271.

    Kinnucan, Paul. "Data Encryption Gurus: Tuchman and Meyer." Cryptologia. V.2 N 4. October 1978. 371-382.

    Kolata, Gina Bari. "Cryptography: A New Clash Between Academic Freedom and National Security". Science. August 29th, 1980. 995-996.

    Massey, J.L. "An Introduction to Contemporary Cryptology." Proceedings of the IEEE. V. 76, N. 5. May 1988. 533-549.

    Schneier, Bruce. Applied Cryptography. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, New York. 1996.

    Shapley, Deborah and Kolata, Gina Bari. "Cryptology: Scientists Puzzle over Threat to Open Research, Publication." Science. September 30, 1977. 1345-46.

    Shaker, Richard. "The Agency that came in from the Cold: exceprts from an address at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore on January 8, 1992." Notices of the American Mathematical Society. V. 39, N. 5. May 1, 1992. 408-411.

    U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "Unclassified Summary: Involvement of the NSA in the development of the Data Encryption Standard." Cryptologia. October 1978, pp 387-389.