1. Who Uses Encryption?
Module 7
Section 3

2. Who Uses Encryption? Banks Industry Professionals National ID cards
Criminals
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3. Industrial Espionage Knowledge of a company’s cost and price structure
Market research
Strategic plans
Order and customer lists
Insider information

4. National ID Cards Strong encryption can be used to authenticate data
Users would have to have a reader with the government’s public key to decrypt
Fearful of key “leakage”
Accessibility to law enforcement agencies

5. Criminals
Cryptography allows criminals to keep their identities a secret
Provides security to law breakers
Allows anonymity
Don’t use systems that leave trails

6. Protection from Dossier Society
Digital cash made possible by public key encryption
Secure financial transactions without a credit card or checking account number

7. E-Cash No link between payer and recipient Convenience of credit card
Anonymity of cash
Use on Internet for ordinary shopping
Can transfer credentials
Can prevent duplicate cash files
Back up at home incase card is lost or stolen

8. E-Cash Not easy to form a consumer profile or dossier
Prevent fraud and forgery
Protect privacy from mailing lists
More control over personal information