Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead (1943)

Cryptography and Privacy

Cracking Files and Passwords

• Group 42's Password Cracking Archive

  Crypto Software

  Stupidity is evil waiting to happen - Claybond
  Using Strong Crytography is not Stupid - a known fact
  
  
• Crypt! v2.1
• Idea encryption program for DOS, With Source.
• Secure Device 1.4 Disc Encryption Program (a must use program).
• Secure Drive 1.4 Disc Encryption.
• Crypto programming library.
• Nautilus Secure Phone Source and DOS program.
• Speak Freely Secure Internet Phone Source and Windows program.
• Windows DLL Crypto Source and documentation.
  
  

  PGP

  Because email is personal, private and no one's business by yours
  
  
• How PGP and RSA works.
• Why you need PGP.
• DOS PGP 2.3a program.
• PGP 2.3a source code.
• DOS PGP 2.6.1 program.
• PGP 2.6.1 source code.
• DOS (32bit) PGP 2.6.3i program. - International version, Best version going.
• PGP 2.6.1i source code. - compiles nicely to amiga,mac,unix,dos16 and dos32 bit.

  Crypto Info

  It is one of Nature's jokes that easy procedures often hide behind terror-inducing facade. - The ARRL Handbook

• USENET Cryptography FAQ
• Nx2 DES
• 2x Isolated DES
• Step by step guide to implement DES.
• DES source code in C.
• Blowfish C source code.
• Simple Cryptography
• Large Block DES
• Ladder DES
• LUC public key info.
• Netsurfer focus on crypto and privacy (with internet links)
• Netscape's implementation of SSL source code.
• Polygonal Sequences
• Secure Hash Standards
• SkipJack
• SkipJack Source code?
• SkipJack Crack for above source code.
• TEMPEST

  Crypto Politics

  If congress truly believes in the Bill of Rights, it should get the hell out of the networking business and stay out of it - John Gilmore to Congress
  
  
• Cryptography Ban Proposal
• Clipper Chip
• Cryptography
• FBI Credit Reports
• Civil Liberties Under Threat
• The Joy of Handles
• Ciphertext - RSA Newsletter
• Digital Telephony
• Wiretaps

  Privacy

  A 1977 class action suit against the Michigan State Police learned, through FOIA requests, that state and federal agents would peruse letters to the editor of newspapers and collect clippings of those whose politics they did not like. These news clippings became the basis of files on those persons that found there way into the hands of other agencies and employers.
  
  
• Speech Freedom and Privacy a Journalist's View.
• Don't Talk to Cops.
• A Privacy Parable.
• Privacy 101 Short Course.
• Privacy and Intellectual Freedom.
• Privacy Tools.
• CFP4 Remarks.
• Unicard: Ubiquitous Computation, Global Connectivity, and the End of Privacy. Very good look one possible way the future will be shaped by technology by one of our heros John Walker.