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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

The report contains lots of facts and figures relevant to crypto policy debates, including the chaotic nature of crypto markets in the mid-1990s, the number of approved devices and libraries of various kinds since then, other standards that invoke AES, and so on. It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001.

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Robert Reich: “Saving Capitalism” From Itself

John Battelle's Searchblog

Most of Reich’s argument turns on this simple premise: The debate between “free markets” and “government intrusion” is a false choice. From banking to broadband, pharma to agriculture, Reich details subtle market mechanisms that concentrate power and capital into the hands of the “new oligarchs.”