bsy's Security Related Net-pointers


bsy is now at UCSD, and this page is no longer being maintained here. Updates to this page occurs at its new location

This is a list of pointers to security related information that I wrote or culled from the net. Some of these don't completely work from WWW -- explicitly running ftp is required.

What's New

  • Second Usenix Electronic Commerce Conference CFP
  • Unofficial-but-approved (by Bletchley Park Trust) Bletchley Park site (Bletchley Park is the site of UK's code breaking activities during WWII)
  • NSA

  • Conference announcements
  • Security/Cryptography Standards, Books, and Papers
  • Additional Info Sources
  • Conferences

  • Second Usenix Electronic Commerce Conference CFP
  • The Enterprise Security Workshop
  • International Association for Cryptologic Research (The annual Crypto and Eurocrypt conferences.)
  • Crypto Freedom & Privacy
  • Security/Cryptography Standards, Books, and Papers


  • Thompson's 1984 Turing Award Lecture, Reflections on Trusting Trust
  • Aegean Press web page
  • The Official PGP User's Guide by Philip R. Zimmermann.
  • PGP Source Code and Internals, also by Philip R. Zimmermann. I'd guess that the book would be exportable, but don't take an OCR device with you.... At least not at the same time. Both links courtesy of MIT Press.
  • Errata for Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier. Code is available overseas
  • Science Applications International Corp (SAIC) security information. Orange book style multi-level security and compartment mode workstation info.
  • W3 security page
  • SSL specifications
  • PCT specifications
  • Shen -- a proposal for providing secure http
  • CommerceNet/EIT draft spec for Secure-HTTP extensions.
  • Orange Book and a summary of the differences between it and DoD Standard 5200.28
  • NIST publications and Green/Red books.
  • CTCPEC and related InfoSec works archived at the Canadian System Security Centre.
  • Green Book (European version of Orange Book), version 4.0 ASCII, and the corresponding README file (from uni-stuttgart.de)
  • Anonymous credit card protocol papers, by Low, Maxemchuk, and Paul (from AT&T).
  • RSA.com public FTP/FAQ site.
  • Cylink pages (now in control again of the Stanford patents)
  • Internet Merchantile Protocol information
  • Internet security papers (from AT&T Bell Labs)
  • ITAR complete text (International Traffic and Arms Regulations, from MSU)
  • Economics of the Internet, including various electronic cash / electronic commerce proposals.

  • Additional Info Sources

  • Zero Knowledge Proofs explained
  • Rabin's function explained
  • Unofficial-but-approved (by Bletchley Park Trust) Bletchley Park site
  • NSA
  • Bletchley Park Museum (Bletchley Park is the site of UK's code breaking activities during WWII)
  • Ron Rivest's page on Cryptography and Security
  • IBM Zurich Security Research page
  • IBM Research's Massively Distributed Systems Security Page
  • ViaCrypt announces Unix PGP
  • Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy
  • CPSR gopher
  • DFN-CERT security info
  • General Cypherpunks collection at UW, by Matt Thomlinson (phantom@u.washington.edu).
  • Tiger tools at TAMU.
  • Cypherpunks Home Page, including steganographic JPEG, PGP info, and more at soda.berkeley.edu.
  • More security info by Vince Cate.
  • Cryptgraphy export issues page at Cygnus Support.
  • Crypto info (at Quadralay).
  • SurfPunk info at NWU
  • RSA.com server.
  • RIPEM info, including cryptography software (Mark Riordan's collection, at Michigan State; advanced registration required, see instructions) includes an archive of various algorithms
  • ISS, Internet Security Scanner, a network security probe tool by Christopher Klaus (from GA Tech)
  • Word compilation (from Oxford, UK)
  • crypto algorithms archive, including GOST 28147-89 (from Hamburg Univ, Germany)
  • Crypt Breaker's Workbench, a tool for breaking crypt(1).
  • Dictionaries at Oxford. Including an unabridged dictionary and Rogets
  • Security Related info page (compiled by Szymon Sokol).
  • Privacy tools (electronic eavesdropping, anti-bugging tools, etc)
  • Applied Cryptography lawsuit info
  • DOS/Windows crypto library from Finland
  • Another crypto package, this time from the Netherlands

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