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September 20, 1994


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* INFORMATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS *
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*   Recommended citation:  U.S. Office of Technology       *
*   Assessment, Information Security and Privacy in        *
*   Network Environments, OTA-TCT-606 (Washington, DC:     *
*   U.S. Government Printing Office, September 1994).      *
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                     *  ABSTRACT  *
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Information technologies are transforming the ways we
create, gather, process, and share information. Computer
networking is driving many of these changes.  But the
transformation brought about by networking also raises new
concerns for the security and privacy of networked
information.  If these concerns are not properly resolved,
they threaten to limit networking's full potential, in terms
of both participation and usefulness.  Thus appropriate
institutional and technological safeguards are required for
a broad range of personal, copyrighted, sensitive, or
proprietary information.  The OTA report on Information
Security and Privacy in Network Environments examines policy
issues in three areas: 1) cryptography policy, including
federal information processing standards and export
controls; 2) guidance on safeguarding unclassified
information in federal agencies; and 3) legal issues and
information security, including electronic commerce,
privacy, and intellectual property.

This report has four chapters and five appendices.  The
electronic file names and sizes are:

01README.TXT--(1K)
02ORDER.INFO.TXT (4K)
FOREWORD.TXT--(3K)
ADVISORY.PANEL.TXT (3K)
STAFF.TXT (1K)
TOC.TXT (2K)
CH1.TXT--INTRODUCTION AND POLICY SUMMARY (93K)
CH2.TXT--SAFEGUARDING NETWORKED INFORMATION (169K)
CH3.TXT--LEGAL ISSUES AND INFORMATION SECURITY (172K)
CH4.TXT--GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND CRYTOGRAPHIC SAFEGUARDS
(299K)
APPC.TXT--EVOLUTION OF THE DIGITAL SIGNATURE STANDARD (36K)
APPD.TXT--WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS (3K)
APPE.TXT--REVIEWERS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTORS (4K)

NOT AVAILABLE IN ELECTRONIC VERSION:
Appendix A--Congressional Letters of Request
Appendix B--Computer Security Act and Related Documents