Safeguarding Confidentiality: A Reply

HIV, confidentiality and 'a delicate balance': a reply to Leone Ridsdale.

The passing on of information to GPs by genito-urinary doctors is to be encouraged but is not always possible and ultimately the patient's wishes and confidentiality must be respected if sexually transmitted diseases and HIV infection are to be controlled. Infected health-care workers should seek counselling and medical support and clear guidelines from professional organisations which are in e...

Safeguarding The Public

In his foreword to this volume, Dr. Paul Beeson points out that "the disease certainly justifies prodigious study, as it may well be the model which will provide important clues to links between immune phenomena, virus infections and neoplastic diseases." In this book, thirteen distinguished contributors have provided a comprehensive review of both clinical and experimental observations as well...

Safeguarding cryptographic keys

Certain cryptographic keys, such as a number which makes it possible to compute the secret decoding exponent in an RSA public key cryptosystem,1,5 or the system master key and certain other keys in a DES cryptosystem,3 are so important that they present a dilemma. If too many copies are distributed one might go astray. If too few copies are made they might all be destroyed. A typical cryptosyst...

The Authors’ Reply

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