Politics of cryptography/Bibliography

focuses on the "crypto wars", the debates of the 90s. The "Code Rebels" in the title are better known as cypherpunks.
 * Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (MIT Press, May 2007, ISBN 978-0-262-04240-6) covers the history from the First World War to the 1990s, with an emphasis on the US.
 * Steven Levy Crypto: How the Code rebels Beat the Government &mdash; Saving Privacy in the Digital Age (Penguin, 2001, ISBN 0-14-024432-8)