Jan 31 Assignment: Law & Internet Seminar (LAW 745)

Cryptography

Cryptography is surprisingly important to many of the activities we will discussing this semester. It plays a particularly important role in Internet Commerce, Digital Cash, Digital Signatures, and of course in privacy. There are applications to intellectual property too.

Reading:

1. A. Michael Froomkin, The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip and the Constitution, 143 U. Penn. L. Rev. 709 (1995)) (photocopy available from distribution center).
2. Dorothy E. Denning's Case for ClipperThere is a lot here. I particularly recommend
   • Dr. Denning's Congressional Testimony
   • The Clipper Chip Will Block Crime
   • Technically minded readers (only?) will enjoy Denning & Smid, Key Escrowing Today, which describes how Clipper works in some detail.
3. Michael Adler, Cyberspace, General Searches and Digital Contraband: The Fourth Amendment and the Net-Wide Search, 105 Yale L.J. 1093 (1995) (photocopy available from distribution center).
4. Philip Zimmermann, Why Do You Need PGP?
5. Notice of Motion, People v. Leary, No. 181/95 (photocopy available from distribution center).
6. Pat Farrel's Unofficial Summary of NIST's September '95 Key Escrow Meeting. Please follow as many of the links as time permits.
7. Pat Farrel's Unofficial Summary of NIST's December '95 Key Escrow Meeting

Doing:

1. Visit the web pages of all seminar participants as they become available.
2. Add a new hypertext link to your homepage.
3. Add a "mailto" link to your homepage that allows readers to send you an email message.
4. Put a "last modified" date on your page(s). Please keep these accurate as the seminar progresses.

Optional

• The EFH Pretty Good Privacy Workshop is a great tutorial on PGP.
• The RSA Cryptography FAQ has a wealth of technical information, most of it explained so non-math types can understand it.
• Former Intel staffer and Net Philosopher Tim May's Crypto-Anarcy and Virtual Communities.
• Dr. Denning's The Future of Cryptography is a heartfelt counter to Tim May's essay.