Privacy on the Line – The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Updated and Expanded Edition - Softcover

Diffie, Whitfield; Landau, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262514001 ISBN 13: 9780262514002

Publisher: MIT Press, 2010

Synopsis

A penetrating and insightful study of privacy and security in telecommunications for a post-9/11, post-Patriot Act world.

About this title

About the Authors

Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public-key cryptography, is Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.

Susan Landau is Bridge Professor in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, at Tufts University. She has been a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Wesleyan University. Landau has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and is a member of the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262514001
• ISBN 13: 9780262514002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 494