ARE THE CRYPTO WARS OVER?
PRIVACY, DIGITAL SECURITY, AND THE FUTURE OF ENCRYPTION POLICY
featuring
Steven Levy
Author, "Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government --
Saving Privacy in the Digital Age"
Bruce Schneier
Author, "Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World"
For several decades, individuals and organizations concerned
with
protecting their personal privacy and corporate secrets have been
engaged in
a heated battle with government officials to gain the right to freely
employ
encryption techniques and technologies to safeguard their information.
While they have won important victories and forced the government to
liberalize controls, it remains an open question whether strong
cryptography
is enough to protect privacy from the many threats posed by an
increasingly
digital world.
Are federal standards and regulations needed in addition to
strong
crypto
to safeguard personal and corporate information? And have we really
seen
the end to government efforts to restrict private cryptography? Do
domestic
and international threats to crypto freedom still exist? In their new
books, Steven Levy and Bruce Schneier attempt to provide answers to
these
elusive questions.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2001
12:00 p.m.
(Luncheon to follow)
Cato policy forums and receptions are free of charge.
To register, call Megan Brumleve by 12:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 18, at
(202) 789-5229, fax her at (202) 371-0841, or e-mail to
mbrumleve@cato.org.
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:02:42 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
From: David Theroux <dtheroux@independent.org>
Subject: Hello
Cc: cclose@independent.org
Dear Declan,
You have featured notices of upcoming events in the past to your list,
and
we would be most grateful if you could please do so for our upcoming
seminar with David Friedman (professor of law and economics, Santa Clara
University; son of Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman), "Will
Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?"
For your convenience, I am adding below a notice on the program.
Please advise me with any questions.
Best regards,
David
David J. Theroux
Founder and President
The Independent Institute
100 Swan Way
Oakland, CA 94621-1428
510-632-1366 Phone
510-568-6040 Fax
DTheroux@independent.org
http://www.independent.org
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WILL ENCRYPTION PROTECT PRIVACY AND MAKE GOVERNMENT OBSOLETE? -- Next
Independent Policy Forum (4/24/01)
http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/010424ipf.html
Many people have wondered how technological progress will affect
political
and civil freedoms. With the rise of encryption software and the FBI's
Carnivore e-mail snooping program, this subject is no longer the
exclusive
domain of speculative thinkers or futurists, it is the subject of
intense
public-policy debate. Will privacy-enhancing technology improve faster
than
privacy-threatening technology? Should the government mandate privacy
standards? Should it enforce contracts in cyberspace, or would private
law
do a better job? Economist and legal scholar DAVID FRIEDMAN will discuss
these and related questions about technological change and the case for
and
against government involvement.
SPEAKER:
DAVID D. FRIEDMAN, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University; Author,
LAW'S
ORDER: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters; HIDDEN
ORDER:
The Economics of Everyday Life; THE MACHINERY OF FREEDOM: Guide to a
Radical Capitalism
WHEN:
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Reception and book signing: 6:30 p.m.
Program: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
WHERE:
The Independent Institute Conference Center
100 Swan Way
Oakland, CA 94621-1428
For a map and directions, see
http://www.independent.org/tii/tii_info/about.html#map
TICKETS: $30.00 per person: includes one copy of David Friedman's book,
LAW'S ORDER, OR, admission without a book is $10 per person ($7 for
Independent Institute Associate Members)
Praise for LAW'S ORDER: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It
Matters (Princeton University Press, 2000):
"Simply put, [LAW'S ORDER] is fabulously written, and readers will very
much appreciate the lucid style, the humor, and the hold-nothing-sacred
(except, perhaps, the market!) approach."
-- STEVEN G. MEDEMA, coauthor, Economics and the Law: From Posner to
Postmodernism
"The author is a talented and provocative writer, with a great
imagination
and the ability to make readers swallow the often counterintuitive
conclusions of economics as common sense. The book is an entertaining
tour
through the mind of someone who has fully absorbed the 'economic way of
thinking' as he attempts to explain and grapple with questions of social
organization."
-- PETER BOETTKE, George Mason University
"[LAW'S ORDER] is wide-ranging in scope, at once simple and highly
sophisticated consistently provocative, an excellent read, and a notable
contribution to an exciting field of interdisciplinary studies."
-- RICHARD A. POSNER, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
"Whether one speaks of the complexities of marginal deterrence, the
resolution of disputes between farmers and railroads, or the social
functions of copyright and patent law, Friedman's book provides the
outsider to the field with a comprehensive but accessible account of his
legal subject matter."
-- RICHARD A. EPSTEIN, University of Chicago School of Law
See David Friedman's related essays:
"A World of Strong Privacy: Promises and Perils of Encryption"
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Academic/Strong_Privacy/Strong_Privacy.html
"Contracts in Cyberspace"
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Academic/contracts_in_%20cyberspace/contracts_in_cyberspace.htm
"Anarchy and Efficient Law"
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Academic/Anarchy_and_Eff_Law/Anarchy_and_Eff_Law.html.
For more about this event, see
http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/010424ipf.html
-- David J. Theroux Founder and President The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 94621-1428 510-632-1366 Phone 510-568-6040 Fax DTheroux@independent.org http://www.independent.org------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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