Cryptography Reference
In-Depth Information
Acknowledgments
I gratefully acknowledge the generous help of the many who have sup-
ported this project at the following institutions: the
Laboratoire d'informatique
théorique et quantique
and the
Centre de recherche en droit public
at the Uni-
versity of Montreal; the Department of Science and Technology Studies at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; in France, the
Centre d'études sur la coo-
pération juridique internationale
at the CNRS, the
Mission de recherche Droit
et Justice
, the
Conseil supérieur du notariat
, the archives service at the Min-
istry of Justice, the
Service central de l'état civil
in Nantes, and the
Groupement
pour l'informatisation du livre foncier d'Alsace-Moselle
in Strasbourg; the Inter-
PARES project at the University of British Columbia and the Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. The library and
support staff at these institutions provided invaluable assistance.
I am also grateful for the financial support of the following institutions:
the Global Legal Studies at the National Science Foundation, the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Social Science and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, the
Centre national de la recherche
scientifique,
, the Quebec Ministry of International Relations, the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Quebec's
Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs
et l'aide à la recherche,
and the UCLA's Office of Faculty Diversity and
Development.
For their help and kind permission to reproduce visual materials, I am
indebted to Dr. Warwick Ford, Adam Back, the
Conseil supérieur du notariat
,
the
Service central d'état civil
, Pierre Jeannelle, Phillippe Strosser, Olivier
Benoît, Adrian Perrig, Ian Jermyn, Alain Mayer, Fabian Monrose, Michael
K. Reiter, and Aviel D. Rubin.
For their moral, material, intellectual, and emotional support, I owe
thanks to the advising team
extraordinaire
of Kim and Mike Fortun, to
