[Cryptography] "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work"
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Tue Dec 1 21:24:43 EST 2015
Of some interest to those here: a newly published essay by
Phillip Rogaway entitled "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work"
Quoting the abstract in full:
Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do
what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political
tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension.
The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political and
moral positioning of cryptography. They lead one to ask if our
inability to effectively address mass surveillance constitutes a
failure of our field. I believe that it does. I call for a
community-wide effort to develop more effective means to resist mass
surveillance. I plea for a reinvention of our disciplinary culture to
attend not only to puzzles and math, but, also, to the societal
implications of our work.
Full text is at:
http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf
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