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Privacy & Encryption Clearinghouse

Privacy & Encryption Legislation

Indiana Access to Public Records Act and Legal Commentary http://www.ai.org/atty_gen/html/public/opendoor4.html
The Indiana Attorney General page reprints the Public Records law as well as legal commentary.

Indiana Code
http://www.state.in.us/legislative/ic/code/
This is a searchable site for the Indiana Code. The Access to Public Records legislation can be found at IC 5-14-3. IC 5-24 is relevant to the use of digital signatures and electronic commerce.

Privacy & Encryption Policy

http://www.netscape.com/newsref/ref/encryption_export.html
http://www.netscape.com/newsref/ref/rsa.html
http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/SSL.html
These three url's are from Netscape and deal with policies, legislation, and international standards which affect the way they bundle and ship products.

Privacy & Encryption White Papers

http://www.verisign.com/products/corporate/whitepapers/security/index.html
A good site that looks at the various concepts involved with server digital signature information.

http://www.iinet.net.au/~heath/crypto.html/
This URL gives a general overview of encryption and site security.

Privacy & Encryption Web Sites of Interest

This list is of sites chosen for their relevance and not for their viewpoint. Some are rather strident; providing the links does not in any way imply endorsement of the views:

Americans for Computer Privacy
Encryption Privacy and Security Resource Page
Internet Privacy Coalition
Internet Privacy Home Page
National Institute of Standards and Technology - Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse
The Privacy Pages
Center for Democracy and Technology
Larry's World
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Council of Better Business Bureaus' BBBOnLine
http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey/ Study of privacy practices in other nations.
http://www.nai.com/default_pgp.asp This is a URL to an overall network security company including Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) stuff. Provides links to PGP products and ability to buy security products.
http://www.w3c.org/P3P/ This is the Platform for Privacy Preferences P3P Project of the W3C.
http://www.ilpf.org/selfreg/announce.htm ILPF Self-Regulation Initiative, includes several industry privacy initiatives
http://www.privacyrights.org/ The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

Privacy & Encryption Best Practices Information

http://www.verisign.com
This is a site that is responsible for issuing the digital signatures which become imbedded within a public webserver.