Encryption Technology

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This paper examines how the needs of the e-commerce community and of the nation to protect itself must both be taken into consideration if the nation is to create a balanced and mutually beneficial approach to improving Internet security. It explores how the market is demanding improved and easier to use encryption technology and how the Government wants to limit, or at least guide, the availability of the same. It looks at how the development of public policy and corporate behavior that can satisfy both is the key to making advancement in encryption technology available to the masses.

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"The science of cryptography offers many potential solutions to the drawbacks of early copy protection schemes, and the operative word is "potential". Cryptography has long been used by military and intelligence agencies to transmit messages so that foreign governments could not decipher them. (Fleischmann 1995) As early as the second world war, the US and foreign governments utilized encryption schemes in order to disguise their communications. Simple encryption is the process of scrambling readable text to make it unreadable based on a key known only to the sender and the receiver. Decryption, on the other hand, is the unscrambling process which occurs on the other end."

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