From the Cold War to the Crypto War: Crypto-Advocates, the NSA, and Private Industry in the "New Informational World Order;" 1991-1996

As the Cold War came to a close, a new informational economy and society emerged in the last decade of the 20th century. As such, new approaches to the flow of information were needed. This historical study follows the contentions between academics and counterculturalists and their adversaries in the intelligence community such as the NSA. In doing so, this narrative illustrates how these contentions were deeply ingrained in a Cold War dialogue between open and closed information theories. ...