Privacy, Security, and Access Workgroup

1. Commercial Encryption Export Controls

Export controls on commercial encryption products are administered by the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) in the U.S. Department of Commerce.

2. A Quick Study On Encrytion

Tim Ouellette Jan. 25, 1999
Encryption is a method to make E-mail messages, data files and electronic-commerce transactions secure. Encoded blocks of data, called keys, are used to lock the message from outside view when it's traveling across the Internet. When it gets to the recipient, that recipient also must use a special key that can unlock the message.

3. Deciphering Encryption

This article provides an introduction to encryption, covering the following topics: Bits and Keys, Pros and Cons, History and Where It Stands

4. Big Brother In The Wires, Wiretapping In The Digital Age

An ACLU Special Report, March 1998. A primer on the encryption debate from the American Civil Liberties Unions, reflecting the organizations's stance in opposition to government restrictions on strong encryption.

5. White House Memorandum On Encryption Export Policy

The text of President Clinton's November 1996 memo on export policy.

6. India Says U.S. Code A Security Risk, Puts Banks On Alert For Weak Encryption

By Sharon Gaudin February 1,1999
The government of India issued a "red alert" to its banks and financial institutions this month, warning them not to use U.S.-made security software because the encryption is too weak

7. FAQ: Changes In U.S. Encryption Policy

By Sharon Machlis December 21, 1998
Questions and Answers on U.S. encryption policy

8. Central Intelligence Agency Speeches and Testimony

Testimony by Director of Central Intelligency, George J. Tenet before the Senate Committee on Governmnet Affairs, 24 June 1998

9. Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tuesday, January 19, 1999 RSA Code-Breaking Contest Again Won by Distributed.Net and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 56K encryption cracked, broken in record 22 hours

10. The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third Party Encryption

This report examines the fundamental properties of these requirements and attempts to outline the technical risks, costs, and implications of deploying systems that provide government access to encryption keys.

11. The RSA Laboratories' Frequently Asked Questions About Today's Cryptography

A large collection of questions about modern cryptography, cryptanalysis, and issues related to them. The information is presented in question and answer form.

12. Add Encryption To Windows Explorer And Your Right Mouse's Context Menu

CodedDrag lets you drag or right-click from Explorer to safeguard files, directories, or entire drives. You can shoose from 56-bit DES keys up to 448-bit Blowfish encryption.

13. Online Privacy Do's And Don'ts

From the February 1997 Issue of PC World

14. The International PGP Home Page

PGP (short for Pretty Good Privacy) is a public key encryption program originally written by Phil Zimmermann in 1991. Over the past few years, PGP has got thousands of adherent supporters all over the globe and has become a de-facto standard for encryption of email on the Internet.

15. S/MIME and OpenPGP

There are currently two actively proposed methods for providing these security services: S/MIME and PGP (both in its early incarnation as PGP/MIME, and as the new OpenPGP standard). Other protocols have been proposed in the past (most notably PEM and MOSS), but they did not garner much interest in the market. However, many major Internet mail vendors have begun to ship products using S/MIME, PGP/MIME, and OpenPGP.

16. Secure FileSystem (SFS) for DOS/Windows

Secure FileSystem (SFS) is a set of programs which create and manage a number of encrypted disk volumes, and runs under both DOS and Windows. Each volume appears as a normal DOS drive, but all data stored on it is encryped at the individual-sector level

17. SKIP- Simple Key management for Internet Protocols IP-Level Cryptography

SKIP secures the network at the IP packet level. Any networked application gains the benefits of encryption, without requiring modification. SKIP is unique in that an Internet host can send an encrypted packet to another host without requiring a prior message exchange to set up a secure channel.

18. Secure Communication for the Remote User

Milkyway is introducing SecurIT ACCESS which provides to remote and mobile users, access control and authentication capabilities as well as encryption, decryption, and key management services using Nortel's Entrust Public Key Infrastructure.

19. Site Patrol^SM for FireWall-1®

Site Patrol is a managed security service that protects your network from Internet-based attacks, detects any breaches or attempted breaches, and initiates appropriate responses to attacks. Through Site Patrol, our experts act as an extension of your IT team to respond in real time to suspected incidents.

20. Computer Incident Advisory Capability Security Tools

The Security Tools webpage provides a listing of useful tools available as well as links to public domain or free security and anti-virus software tools on the Internet