UNDERSTANDING E

RESOURCES

Here are a list of resources that are available to help with the experience. Related external links are found on each resource that is present on this web site. The related links can be helpful in enhancing the understanding of a topic. A list of all of these links appears under this table. However, these links are not necessarily required to come up with a good answer to this web quest!

Resource Name	Description
Bit Commitment Protocol	Introduction of how you can securely commit to something.
Blinding	Introduction to blinding techniques and its uses in secure systems.
Certificates and Authentication	Describes a certificate and its uses in authenticating (identifying) a user.
Digital Signatures	The digital signing technique and one way functions are discussed.
Key Distribution	A discussion of how keys are distributed in public and symmetric key systems.
Public Key Cryptography	An introduction to public key cryptography and its uses in security.
Secret Splitting	The way to secretly split a message is revealed for everyone to see!
Security Basics	Fundamental terms and the basics of security are explained.
Symmetric Key Encryption	A discussion of symmetric key encryption and its uses.

A list of all external links are provided below:

Basics of Security

Private and Public Key Definition available at http://www.whatis.com/privatek.htm
Encryption and Decryption Definition available at http://www.whatis.com/encrypti.htm
"Introduction to Information Security" by David Cyganski, John A. Orr and Richard F. Vaz is available at http://www.ece.wpi.edu/infoeng/textbook/node210.html. January 26, 1998

Bit Commitment Protocol

"Background for Bit Commitment" by Claude Crepeau is available at http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~crepeau/CRYPTO/BCDemo/BCbackground.html. March 15, 1998

Blinding

"Blind Signatures" by Frame Technology is available at http://www.cs.nps.navy.mil/curricula/tracks/security/notes/chap05_43.html. January, 1994.
"Voting with Blind Signatures" by Frame Technology is available at http://www.cs.nps.navy.mil/curricula/tracks/secruity/notes/chap05_46.html. January, 1994.

Certificates and Authentication

Definition of digital certificate is available at http://www.whatis.com/digitace.htm.
Definition of authentication is available at http://www.whatis.com/authenti.htm.
"Introduction to SSL" by Netscape provides Certificate and Authentication Examples with the SSL protocol can be found at http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/security/sslin/contents.htm. October 9, 1998.
"Digital Certificates" by David Cyganski, John A. Orr and Richard F. Vaz is available at http://www.ece.wpi.edu/infoeng/textbook/node216.html. January 26, 1998.

Digital Signatures

Definition of Digital Signature is available at http://whatis.com/digitasi.htm.
"Digital Signatures" by David Cyganski, John A. Orr and Richard F. Vaz is available at http://www.ece.wpi.edu/infoeng/textbook/node215.html. January 26, 1998.

Key Distribution

"Key Management" by Frame Technology is available at http://www.cs.nps.navy.mil/curricula/tracks/security/notes/chap05_30.html. January 1994.

Public Key Encryption

"Public Key Cryptography" by Davin McCall is available http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~davmac/algrthm/pkc.htm. 1999. Good reference for the creation of keys, encryption, and decryption.
"RSA" by Serge Hallyn is available at http://www.cs.wm.edu/~hallyn/public_key/rsa.html. March 29, 1996.
"Public Key Cryptography" by David Cyganski is available at http://www.ece.wpi.edu/infoeng/textbook/node214.html. February 17, 1998.
"Using RSA Public Key Cryptography for Internet Security" by Pablo Mazzara is available at http://www.iie.edu.uy/~mazzara/pgp/RSA.htm. March 23, 1996.
"Thirteen Reasons to Say 'No' to Public Key Cryptography" by Thierry Moreau is available at http://www.connotech.com/13REAS.htm. March 4, 1998.
"Problems & Attacks on RSA" by Jarrod Ammann, Mahesh Balaji, James Bolton, Khalifah Hamzah, John Stajdl, and Kris Zoerhoff is available at http://www.ee.mtu.edu/courses/ee465/groupa/problems.html.

Symmetric Key Encryption

"Private Key Cryptography" by David Cyganski is available at http://www.ece.wpi.edu/infoeng/textbook/node212.html. February 17, 1998.

General Reference

"Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1996