David D. Friedman

Encryption and Freedom on the Internet

David Friedman is professor of economic analysis of law at Santa Clara University, the author of The Machinery of Freedom and son of world renowned economist Milton Friedman.

In this talk, David will demonstrate how both the internet in general, and encryption technology in particular contribute to freedom. These technologies bolster liberty by providing communication, trade and anonymity that is extremely difficult for the government to regulate.

David Friedman has a web page at http://www.best.com/~ddfr/. For more information on anonymity on the internet, you might want to check out Zero Knowledge. For one approach to facilitating trade on the internet, you might want to visit ERights.org. For information on internet censorship, Free-Market.net's Spotlight on Internet Censorship would be a good place to start. For one very controversial possibility that that encryption might bring about, see Jim Bell's Assassination Politics.