Politics of cryptography/Bibliography

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A list of key readings about Politics of cryptography.
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  • Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption [1] (MIT Press, May 2007, ISBN 978-0-262-04240-6) covers the history from the First World War to the 1990s, with an emphasis on the US.
  • Steven Levy Crypto: How the Code rebels Beat the Government — Saving Privacy in the Digital Age [2] (Penguin, 2001, ISBN 0-14-024432-8) focuses on the "crypto wars", the debates of the 90s. The "Code Rebels" in the title are better known as cypherpunks.