The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

The Ethics of Cryptography

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Author

Courtney Falk

Tech report number

CERIAS TR 2005-37

Entry type

mastersthesis

Abstract

This thesis explores cryptography and applies a normative ethical theory to determine what if any uses of cryptography are ethically permissible. Cryptography is divided into confidentiality, integrity, and authentication before being considered under the deontological moral theory of Immanueal Kant and other modern philosophers such as Alan Donagan, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick. Brief discussions on the fields of ethics and cryptography are included to aid any reader not familiar with them.

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Date

2005 – 05 – 14

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http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~falkca/Thesis.pdf

Institution

CERIAS

Key alpha

Falk

Publisher

Purdue University

School

Purdue University

Publication Date

2005-05-14

Keywords

ethics, morals, cryptography, cryptology

Language

English

Subject

Deals with the ethics concerning useages of cryptography.

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