The history of information security a comprehensive handbook / edited by Karl De Leeuw and Jan Bergstra.

Other author Leeuw, Karl de.
Other author Bergstra, J. A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; London : Elsevier,
Descriptionxi, 887 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBook - Computer Science 2007
Subjects
Cryptography--History.
Computer security--History.
Copyright--History.

Contents Introduction / K. de Leeuw -- Limitations on the publishing of scientific research / J. Meadows -- Industrialists, inventors and the German patent system, 1877-1957: a comparative perspective / K. Gispen -- Reflecting media: a cultural history of copyright and the media / R. Verhoogt, C. Schriks -- The history of copyright protection of computer software: the emancipation of a work of technology toward a authorship / M. de Cock Buning -- A history of software patents / R. Plotkin -- Semiotics of identity management / P. Wisse -- History of document security / K.J. Schell -- From frankpledge to chip and pin: identification and identity in England, 1475-2005 / E. Higgs -- The scientific development of biometrics over the last 40 years / J.L. Wayman -- The rise of crptology in the European renaissance / G. F. Strasser -- Cryptology in the Dutch republic: a case study / K. de Leeuw -- Intelligence and the emergence of the information society in eighteenth-century Britain / J. Black -- Rotor machines and bombes / F.L. Bauer -- Tunny and colossus: breaking the Lorenz Schlüsselzuatz traffic / B. J. Copeland -- Boris Hagelin and Crypto AG: pioneers of encryption / S. Frik -- Eavesdroppers of the Kremlin: KGB sigint during the Cold War / M. Aid -- National security agency: the historiography of concealment / J. Fitsankis -- An introduction to modern cryptology / B. Preneel -- A history of computer security standards / J.R. Yost -- Security models / D. Gollmann -- Computer security through correctness and transparency / H. Meijer ... [et. al] -- IT security and IT auditing between 1960 and 2000 / M. van Biene-Hershey -- A history of internet security / L. DeNardis -- History of computer crime / S. W. Brenner -- The export of cryptography in the 20th and the 21st centuries / W. Diffie, S. Landau -- History of privacy / J. Holvast -- Munitions, wiretaps and MP3s: the changing interface between privacy and encryption policy in the information security / A. Chalesworth -- The information revolution and the transformation of warfare / D. Kuehl.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010293112
ISBN9780444516084 (hbk.)
ISBN0444516085 (hbk.)