Future Applications of Cryptography

Charles Cresson Wood
1981 1981 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy  
Cryptography is no longer the province of a specialized elite of mathematicians and military operatives. Its potential cost-effective applications to modern computer/communicationssystems appear to be many and varied. In spite of disappointing aales of cryptographic equipment, the market for these devices is expected to rapidly expand over the next several years. Encryption (alias encipherment, encoding, privacy transformation, cryptography, or simply crypto), however, is but one control that
more » ... ould be considered when safeguarding the information assets and processing capabilities associated with modern information and communications systems. Encryption should not be considered a panacea. It is all too easy for information systems specialists to relax once they have encryption installed and operational. According to Dorm B. Parker of SRI International, one bank service bureau in the New York City area actually had less security after the installation of encryption than it had prior to the installation. Apparently the employees in computer-related positions of trust had relaxed their enforcement of other operational controls because they believed that precautions beyond encryption were unnecessary.
doi:10.1109/sp.1981.10013 dblp:conf/sp/Wood81 fatcat:ksq7wfvolnfenltb2e5h32hkha