Computer and Information Security Handbook, 2nd Edition

Chapter 38

Satellite Encryption

Daniel S. Soper¹,    Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department, Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, California State University, Fullerton, ¹Email: [e-mail]

1 Introduction

For virtually all of human history, the communication of information was relegated to the surface of the Earth. Whether written or spoken, transmitted by land, by sea, or by air, all messages had one thing in common – they were, like those who created them, inescapably bound to the terrestrial surface. In February 1945, however, the landscape of human communication was forever altered when an article by the highly influential science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke proposed the extraordinary possibility that artificial ...