Jean-François Blanchette
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262017510
- eISBN:
- 9780262301565
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017510.003.0003
- Subject:
- Information Science, Information Science
This chapter focuses on the 1976 publication of Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman’s “New Directions in Cryptography,” which is considers a turning point in the history of cryptographic innovation. It ...
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This chapter focuses on the 1976 publication of Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman’s “New Directions in Cryptography,” which is considers a turning point in the history of cryptographic innovation. It explains that the book argued not only for radically new applications of cryptography for the coming age of computer networks, but also for a new paradigm of provable security based on the certification of cryptosystems through the mathematical frameworks of complexity theory and algorithmics. It also describes the emergence of cryptography in the 1990s as the Internet’s first native political movement and cyberlibertarianism’s most prominent voice.Less
This chapter focuses on the 1976 publication of Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman’s “New Directions in Cryptography,” which is considers a turning point in the history of cryptographic innovation. It explains that the book argued not only for radically new applications of cryptography for the coming age of computer networks, but also for a new paradigm of provable security based on the certification of cryptosystems through the mathematical frameworks of complexity theory and algorithmics. It also describes the emergence of cryptography in the 1990s as the Internet’s first native political movement and cyberlibertarianism’s most prominent voice.
