Crypto Wars

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As crypto wars effort is called the US government , the private encryption of data to be prevented. Crypto Wars 2.0 and 3.0 are sometimes used for the different phases of this dispute. The Crypto Wars take a significant part in the history of cryptography .

history

In the 1990s, a bill was tabled in the US Senate. According to this, providers of communication services should be obliged to provide government authorities with access to user communication on request. This aroused opposition from civil rights activists and communication service providers.

The software developer Phil Zimmermann was motivated by this legislative proposal for the PGP encryption program .

At that time, the NSA proposed that telephone system manufacturers use the NSA-developed Clipper Chip for encryption. This chip would give government agencies access to communications when needed. Again there were numerous protests, so that the project was discontinued in 1996.

literature

  • T. Lappin: Winning the Crypto Wars: why John Gilmore believes things are going our way. Wired USA 5 (1997): 94.
  • Tom Burghardt: The US Secret State and the Internet: “Dirty Secrets” and “Crypto Wars” from “Clipper Chip” and ECHELON to PRISM. Global Research (2013).
  • Charles C. Mann: Homeland insecurity. The Atlantic Monthly 290.2 (2002): 81-102.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Waging crypto wars 2.0 . In: Network World . ( networkworld.com [accessed November 30, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Achim Sawall: Crypto Wars 2.0: CCC calls for a strict ban on unencrypted communication - Golem.de . ( golem.de [accessed November 30, 2016]).
  3. ^ Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti: Crypto Wars 3.0: EU Council discusses key deposit. In: heise online. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Matthias Schulze: Crypto Wars: The old song for 40 years . In: Tresorit Blog . November 30, 2016 ( tresorit.com [accessed November 30, 2016]).