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ecTechWeb: TECHNOLOGY: Security, privacy and trust

Worth reading: security privacy and trust@ (6)
Cryptography (4)
privacy (11)

Trust and social issues (6)
Security technology (11)

The World Wide Web Security 0
Secure Electronic 0
Public Key Infrastructure: Unlocking the Internet's Economic Potential 0 - A nice overview of PKI and ecommerce from Hambrecht and Quist (April 98).
Stealth Coordinated Attack HOWTO 1 - This article describes methods used to penetrate sites. originally published in Digital Mogul Volume 2-7, July 1999
s e c u r i t y f o c u s 0 - "SecurityFocus.com is designed to facilitate discussion on security related topics, create security awareness, and to provide the
Internet's largest and most comprehensive database of security knowledge and resources to the public. "
Privada Inc.- Internet Incognito 2 - Privada.net offers products for annonymous web surfing, email and
ecommerce. Webincognito is a $5-a-month, all-encompassing online
anonymity protector using a proxy server for e-mail, online chat, Web
browsing, and online purchases.
GNU Privacy Guard 0 - GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. Because it does not use IDEA or RSA it can be used without
any restrictions. GnuPG is a RFC2440 (OpenPGP) compliant application.
Know your enemy 0 - An interesting set of short articles by lance Spitzner on securing systems on the Internet covering know your enemy, building honeypots, armoring Linux, solaris and NT, intrusion detection, and firewall troubleshooting.
Intrusion Detection 1 - Over 75 links on intrusion detection by Jim Truitt
IT Security Cookbook 0 - This book is intended as a 'self help'
guide to computer & network security,
primarily for security managers,
programmers and system
administrators.
Encryption and Security Tutorial 0 - Peter Gutman's crypto tutorial, totalling 509 slides in 8 parts, of which the first 7 are
the tutorial itself and the 8th is extra material which covers crypto politics. IN PDF format with two slides per page.
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance 0 - The TCPA mission is the development of a new hardware and
software
specification that will enable technology companies to offer a more trusted
and secure personal computer platform based on common standards.
Ontology for common security vulnerabilities 1 - Mitre has lead an effort to develop a common ontology for security vulnerabilities. CVE is a list of information security vulnerabilities and
exposures that aims to provide common names for publicly
known problems. The goal of CVE is to make it easier to share
data across separate vulnerability databases and security
tools with this "common enumeration."
Shields up... 3 - This site allows you to
run a quick test to see if your windows computer is vulnerable to certain attacks. Passing does not
mean that your computer is secure, but failing certainly means that it is insecure.

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