Encryption

Updated: 2009-04-22

Introduction

• Digital Signatures Tutorial
  • From ABA, teaches about digital signatures
  • http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsg-tutorial.html
• Is encryption doomed?
  • Article speculates about whether the NP problem will be solved soon.
  • http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/13767/
• History of encryption
  • Short history of encryption
  • http://www.cescomm.co.nz/about/history.html
• Cryptography FAQ
  • Explains basic issues in cryptography including keys, algorithm, random numbers, ciphers, and hardware vs. software encryption.
  • http://www.cescomm.co.nz/about/encryption.html
• Wikipedia on History of Cryptography
  • Good Wikipedia page covers cryptography's history.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cryptography
• The Crypto Tutorial
  • Learn cryptography in 30 lessons! (Really)
  • http://www.antilles.k12.vi.us/math/cryptotut/home.htm
• Privacy Issues
  • Summarizes privacy issues facing people today including: biometrics, video surveillance, online privacy, wireless tracking, identity theft, medical records, wiretapping, RFID, and many more.
  • http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/Privacy-IssuesList.htm
• Electronic Freedom Foundation
  • Home page of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, a group interested in protecting individual rights related to electronic technology.
  • http://www.eff.org/
• FAQ: How Real ID will affect you
  • C|NET FAQ delineates the Real ID program and its consequences.
  • http://news.com.com/FAQ+How+Real+ID+will+affect+you/2100-1028_3-5697111.html
• Real ID: Disaster in the making?
  • C|NET News article analyzes the implications of the Real ID card.
  • http://news.com.com/National+ID+card+a+disaster+in+the+making/2010-7348_3-6180835.html
• Encryption Algorithms
  • Page summarizes common encryption algorithms.
  • http://www.mycrypto.net/encryption/crypto_algorithms.html
• Cell phone GPS: Privacy issues
  • Short article discusses the implications of E911 calls.
  • http://ezinearticles.com/?Cell-Phone-GPS-Tracking---Privacy-Issues&id=159255
• Wikipedia on Big Brother
  • Wikipedia review of the Big Brother character in Orwell's novel 1984.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(1984)