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Crypto Bibliography
This is a bibliography compiled by Phil Zimmermann for people
who are interested in learning more about cryptography, in
technical, historical, and public policy terms.
For information on the politics of cryptography and privacy,
see these sources:
On the web:
Books:
- 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(Out of date with current PGP software, but still politically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)
For technical aspects of cryptography, see the following
sources.
On the web:
Books:
- Practical Cryptography
Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons,
2003
ISBN 0-471-22357-3
(If you can only read one book on crypto, this is it)
- Applied Cryptography, 2nd edition
Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons, 1996
ISBN 0-471-12845-7
(Before Practical Cryptography came out, this was the one book you
needed)
- 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(Out of date with current PGP software, but technically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)
See also:
To download PGP, you can rely on these trusted sites:
- Where to find
PGP
Detailed information by Phil Zimmermann on where to find PGP, and
what versions are available.
- www.pgpi.org
International PGP home page, for freeware versions of PGP outside
of US, including source code. Includes many foreign language
translations of PGP and manuals.
For information on the 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)
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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)
- Cyber Secrets
Part of the PBS "Life on the Internet" Video Series, 1996
Public Broadcasting System
- Modern Marvels: Codes
The History Channel, 2001
- National Security Nightmare
60 Minutes II, CBS News, 29 Aug 2001
NPR's coverage of the end of the PGP investigation
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Justice Department drops Zimmermann case
Morning Edition - January 12, 1996, National Public Radio, Washington DC
(Ironically, this NPR News broadcast includes another story immediately following the PGP story that reminds us why people sometimes need protection from their own governments.)
©1996 National Public Radio, Inc.
News reports titled “Cryptography Programmer Charges Dropped”
by Dan Charles and Bob Edwards, originally broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition
on January 12, 1996. Used with the permission of NPR.
Any unauthorized duplication is strictly prohibited.
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