1.  Encryption Export Overview

• US commercial encryption export controls - Bureau of Industry and Security 
• Archive of  encryption Export Information - Electronic Frontier Foundation -new
  

2.  Reasons for export restrictions of encryption

• Crypto kills -- really, it does  - Wired News, James Glave -new
• Terror groups hide behind web encryption - USA Today, Jack Kelly -new
  

3.  Reasons against export restrictions of encryption

• ACLU joins appeal in Bernstein encryption case - American Civil Liberties Union
• Encryption: A strategic weapon - E-Pro Magazine, Jeff Papows
  

4.  Laws and legal concerns

• Current commercial encryption export controls -  Bureau of Industry and Security
• Encryption and computer crime -  US Department of Justice -new
• Current US encryption regulations: A federal law enforcement perspective - FBI, Charles Smith -new
• Rights to transport encryption software -  Center For Democracy and Technology

5.  The current political scene

• US relaxation of encryption export regulations - The Washington Post, Elizabeth Corcoran
• Open letter to president bush on freedom & crypto - Jay Dyson -new
• FBI attempts to outlaw non-escrowed encryption - Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Crypto in the arms trade - Wired News, Christopher Jones
  

6.  Examples of Encryption software

• Enigmail - The Mozilla Project
• Pretty Good Privacy - Phill Zimmermann
• Internet Explorer - Microsoft
• GNU free encryption software list - The Free Software Foundation
  

7.  Encryption Terms

• Encryption - Wikipedia
• Public Key Cryptography - Webopedia 
• Keberos - MIT
  
• Advance Encryption Standard -  The Computer Security and Resource Center
• Secure Sockets Layer - Netscape
• RSA Algorithm - Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman