Cryptography Policy | Cyber Security and Policy

Harold Abelson, Ross Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin, Josh Benaloh, Matt Blaze, Jon Callas, Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau, Peter G. Neumann, Ronald L. Rivest, Jeffrey I. Schiller, Bruce Schneier, Vanessa Teague, and Carmela Troncoso, Bugs in our Pocket: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning, Journal of Cybersecurity, Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2024S. Landau, The Development of a Crypto Policy Community: Diffie–Hellman’s Impact on Public Policy, Rebecca Slayton, ed., Democratizing Cryptography: The Work of Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, pp. 214-256.
N. Kostyuk and S. Landau, Dueling over Dual_EC_DRBG: The Consequences of Corrupting a Cryptographic Standardization Process, Harvard National Security Journal, Volume 13, Issue 2, 2022.
Encryption Working Group, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moving the Encryption Policy Debate Forward, September 2019.
Committee on Law Enforcement and Intelligence Access to Plaintext Information in an Era of Widespread Strong Encryption: Options and Trade Offs, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decisionmakers, 2018.
S. Landau, Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age, Yale University Press, 2017. Some podcasts: an in-depth Hoover Book Soiree discussion with Ben Wittes and a short Science blog interview with Jen Golbeck.
S. Landau, The Real Security Risks of the iPhone Case, Science, Vol. 352, Issue 6292, June 17, 2016, pp. 1398-1399.
S. Landau, Testimony, Hearing on "The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans' Security and Privacy", Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives, March 1. 2016.
H. Abelson, R. Anderson, S. Bellovin, J. Benaloh, M. Blaze, W. Diffie, J. Gilmore, M. Green, S. Landau, P. Neumann, R. Rivest, J. Schiller, B. Schneier, M. Specter, and D. Weitzner, Keys under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications, Journal of Cybersecurity, Vol. 1, 2015.
S. Landau, ``NSA and Dual EC_DRBG: Deja Vu All Over Again?,'' Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 37, Issue 4 (December 2015), pp. 72-83.
S. Landau, Under the Radar: NSA's Efforts to Secure Private-Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure, Journal of National Security Law and Policy, Vol. 7, No.3 (2014), pp. 411-442; one section was reprinted in in Japanese in Intelligence, translation by Junichi Hiramatsu, Vol. 15, March, 2015.
S. Landau, Making Sense of Snowden Part II: What's Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations , IEEE Security and Privacy, Vol. 12, No. 1, January/February 2014; a short version, Highlights from Making Sense of Snowden Part II: What's Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations, (behind payment wall) appeared in IEEE Security and Privacy, Vol. 12, No. 1, January/February 2014, pp. 62-64.
S. Bellovin, M. Blaze, S. Clark, S. Landau, Lawful Hacking: Using Existing Vulnerabilities for Wiretapping on the Internet, Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Vol. 12, Issue 1 (2014).
S. Landau, Making Sense of Snowden: What's Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations , IEEE Security and Privacy, Vol. 11, No. 4, July/August 2013, pp. 54-63.
S. Landau, Testimony, Hearing on Going Dark: Lawful Electronic Surveillance in the Face of New Technologies, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives, February 17, 2011.
W. Diffie and S. Landau, The Export of Cryptography in the 20th Century and the 21st, The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook, Karl De Leeuw and Jan Bergstra (eds.), Elsevier, 2007, pp. 725-736. Originally appeared in Treichel, Jeanie and Mary Holzer (eds.), Sun Microsystems Laboratories: the First Ten Years, 2001. Sun Labs Tech Report 2001-102. A modified version of this paper, September 11th Did Not Change Cryptography Policy, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, April 2002, pp. 450-454.
S. Landau, entries for "Clipper and Capstone"; "cryptography"; "digital signatures," in William Staples, ed. Encyclopedia of Privacy, Greenwood Press, 2007.
S. Landau, Find Me a Hash, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, March 2006, pp. 330-332; Mathematical Advance in Translation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 (2010), pp. 226-228.
S. Landau, RSA and Public-Key Cryptography; Introduction to Cryptography; Cryptography: Theory and Practice; Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography; Elliptic Curves: Number Theory and Cryptography; Elliptic Curves in Cryptography; Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs, and Pseudorandomness; Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools; The Design of Rijndael: AES --- the Advanced Encryption Standard; Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2004), pp. 357-367.
S. Landau, Polynomials in the Nation's Service: Using Algebra to Design the Advanced Encryption Standard, American Mathematical Monthly, February 2004, pp. 89-117.
W. Diffie and S. Landau, September 11th Did Not Change Cryptography Policy, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, April 2002, pp. 450-454.
S. Landau, "Cryptography." Computer Sciences, Ed., Roger R. Flynn. Vol. 4: Electronic Universe. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 49-53.
S. Landau, Advanced Encryption Standard Choice is Rijndael, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Jan. 2001, p. 38.
S. Landau, Communications Security for the Twenty-First Century: the Advanced Encryption Standard, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, April 2000, pp. 450-459. Reprinted, in translation, in "Surveys in Applied and Industrial Mathematics," TVP Publishers (Moscow), Vol. 7, No. 2 (2000), pp. 259-281.
S. Landau, Standing the Test of Time: the Data Encryption Standard, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, March 2000, pp. 341-349. Reprinted, in translation, in "Surveys in Applied and Industrial Mathematics," TVP Publishers (Moscow), Vol. 7, No. 2 (2000), pp. 240-258.
S. Landau, Designing Cryptography for the New Century, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 43, No. 5, May 2000, pp. 115-120.
S. Landau, Cryptography in Crisis, Commentary (In My Opinion), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, April 1998, p. 461.
W. Diffie and S. Landau, Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, MIT Press, rev. and updated edition, 2007 (orig. pub. 1998).
S. Landau, S. Kent, C. Brooks, S. Charney, D. Denning, W. Diffie, A. Lauck, D. Miller, P. Neumann and D. Sobel, Codes, Keys, and Conflicts: Issues in U.S. Crypto Policy, ACM Press, 1994. This report, funded by the NSF, was an undertaking of the USACM Committee on Public Policy. Dr. Stephen Kent, Chief Scientist - Security Technology, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, chaired the panel, which consisted of senior members of the cryptography and security communities, including members of the government, industry, and academia. A summary of the report appeared under the title Crypto Policy Perspectives, in Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37 (Aug. 1994), pp. 115-121.
S. Landau, Some Remarks on Computing the Square Parts of Integers, Information and Computation, Vol. 78, No. 3 (1988), pp. 246-253.
S. Landau, Zero Knowledge and the Department of Defense, Notices of the American Mathematical Society [Special Article Series], Vol. 35, No. 1 (1988), pp. 5-12.
S. Landau, Primes, Codes and the National Security Agency, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, [Special Article Series], Vol. 30, No. 1 (1983), pp. 7-10.