Privacy, cryptography and global e-commerce

This paper shows that privacy protection is essential for the economic well-being of nation state as the global move to electronic commerce accelerates, and that this protection can be achieved through the use of new cryptographic and allied technologies, along with associated legal framework and 'trusted systems' environments, that address the differing dimension of the problem. It also proposes that new concepts and technologies are needed to solve these problems and to meet the disparate of societies who treasure both personal and enterprise privacy as well as value the role of efficient and effective law enforcement and defense activities as they move to meet the challenge of global crime and 'information warfare' threats.