Pretty Good Privacy
Brian Rotman, 1 June 2000
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh.
Fourth Estate, 402 pp., £16.99, September 1999,1 85702 879 1 Show More
by Simon Singh.
Fourth Estate, 402 pp., £16.99, September 1999,
In Code: A Mathematical Journey
by Sarah Flannery.
Profile, 292 pp., £14.99, April 2000,1 86197 222 9 Show More
by Sarah Flannery.
Profile, 292 pp., £14.99, April 2000,
Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau.
MIT, 346 pp., £10.50, April 1999,0 262 54100 9 Show More
by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau.
MIT, 346 pp., £10.50, April 1999,
“... if everybody has access to the information designed to encrypt it? The answer, pioneered by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the early 1970s, is to reject a principle of cryptography apparently so obvious as to go unchallenged until then: namely, that deciphering is the reverse of enciphering and that encryption and decryption keys are ... ”
