OpinionJune 30, 2020
The Encryption Wars Are Back but in Disguise
A government push for access is ostensibly about fighting crime, terrorism and child porn. Yet it could put all of us at risk of unwarranted surveillance
Stories by Whitfield Diffie
Whitfield Diffie is a cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. He is also a company advisor to Quantum Xchange, which (among other companies) has commercialized quantum key distribution. He won the Turing Award in 2015.
TechnologySeptember 1, 2008
Internet Eavesdropping: A Brave New World of Wiretapping
As telephone conversations have moved to the Internet, so have those who want to listen in. But the technology needed to do so would entail a dangerous expansion of the government's surveillance powers