Cryptography Policy
DES-based products for file and data encryption will probably not be removed from the munitions list in the near future.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Cryptography Policy
If the U.S. government continues to control DES-strength encryption manufactured in the U.S., the following results may come to pass: Foreign competitors of U.S. encryption companies will likely gain control of the global market for encryption products. U.S. companies will lose a significant share in the global market for encryption products … DES-strength encryption will continue to proliferate to foreign destinations, either through foreign companies or through the ever-growing Internet. The effort of current U.S. export policy to inhibit this by restricting exports on DES-based technology is unlikely to succeed. If, indeed, U.S. companies get displaced in the international encryption marketplace, U.S. national security will also be threatened by a weakened domestic encryption (and computer) industry.
Cryptography Policy
A steady increase in the market for encryption products is likely, as is a continued expansion into this market by foreign manufacturers.
Cryptography Policy
The trend is toward more wireless communications in the future. Since they are easier to intercept than wire-based ones, the demand for encryption technology will increase as concern for data integrity increases, although many wireless consumers persist in using such media without the benefit of cryptographic products.
Cryptography Policy
One of the consequences of an increasingly electronics-oriented economy will be the need to provide some amount of anonymity and privacy for users of such a digital cash system in order to ensure that electronic money remains anonymous and untraceable, except by the payer and payee. Government approval will be requisite for digital cash to gain full approval by the business community and public, and the government may require access to these transaction records to prevent what might otherwise become “perfect crimes.”
Shaping Cyberspace Into Human Space
Online education is evaporating all the old boundaries, the things that kept people apart … New computer networking technology requires and enables a whole new way of teaching and learning. For the first time in human history we can have many-to-many communication across time and across space.
An Amalgam of Popular Fictions About the Internet, Including Brief Trips to China and The City of No Illusions
I doubt our offices will be replaced by minions working from home. The lack of meetings and personal interaction isolates workers and reduces loyalty. Nor is a house necessarily an efficient place to work, what with the constant interruptions and lack of office fixtures. Perhaps it’ll work for jobs where one never has to meet anyone else, like data entry or telephone sales. What a way to turn a home into a prison.
An Amalgam of Popular Fictions About the Internet, Including Brief Trips to China and The City of No Illusions
Instead of an Internet-inspired renaissance, mediocre writing and poorly thought-out arguments roll into my modem. E-mail and postings to network newsgroups are frequently ungrammatical, misspelled and poorly organized … Computers encourage specialized expertise, like running programs or connecting to networks, at the expense of general skills, like organizing coherent sentences, gathering thoughts together, developing vocabulary or toying with ideas.
Attack of the $500 Killer Network Computers
These terminals will only come over the dead bodies of Netscape, Microsoft and a dozen other companies, because every company is adding functionality to the Web … it’s too early in the life of the Internet to “strangle” its potential with a fixed-function terminal. Users haven’t opted for cheaper boxes in the past.
An Amalgam of Popular Fictions About the Internet, Including Brief Trips to China and The City of No Illusions
One of the more pernicious myths of the online world is that of a literary revival.