Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Cryptography and Information Security

Marko Turpeinen
Department of Computer Science
Helsinki University of Technology
Tik-110.501 Seminar on Network Security
mtu@cs.hut.fi

4.12.1995

Abstract

The use of cryptography in digital network environments raises numerous open legal end ethical issues, that need to be solved on the international level. Especially there are many controversial questions regarding electronic commerce and digital copyright, that will have a large influence on the ways we conduct business and access information.

1. - Introduction

2. - Case: Nutcase & DigiBooks

3. - Information infrastructure for cryptography

3.1. - Digital certificates and trusted third parties

3.2. - Global vs. national interests

3.3. - Government vs. public interests

4. - Electronic commerce

4.1. - Contractual requirements

4.2. - Commercial transactions, time-stamping and trusted entities

4.3. - Digital money

5. - Digital copyright

5.1. - Justification for copyright

5.2. - Encryption and copyright

5.3. - Data hiding

5.4. - Digital libraries

6. - Conclusions

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