Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 164,  December 4, 2021 Hilarie Orman,  Editor Sven Dietrich, Book Review Editor Sven Dietrich, Associate Editor Yong Guan, Calendar Editor

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• News, Commentary and Opinion

  • Sven Dietrich's review of Introduction to Privacy Enhancing Technologies: A Classification-Based Approach to Understanding PETs by Carlisle Adams

  • NewsBits:  Announcements and correspondence from readers (please contribute!)

    • Dept of Commerce Dips Toe in Data Privacy for Foreign Apps
    • Evil Journalist Discovers How to Decode Top Secret Base64 Algorithm
    • FBI Email Server Hacked, But No Worries
    • Azure Gives Database Users the Blues

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

  • News items from past Cipher issues

 

• Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
  

 

• Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
  We regret that our usual summary of upcoming events is not available this month, but the lists are available online, as usual.
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• The Technical Committee on Security and Privacy

 

• Staying in touch....

  • Information for Subscribers and Contributors

  • Who's where: recent address changes

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