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Burger King Nutritional Wizard
A very well-done interactive nutrition calculator that saves state in an innovative way. See the gadget that examines it.


CGI RFC ProjectPage
NCSA gave us Mosaic, modern Web servers and the CGI spec. Now, a team of Internet programmers are working on a new spec for CGI 1.2


Counterpane Internet Security Inc.
Bruce Schneier's site where you will find very interesting news, commentary and analysis on all things cryptographic.


The Dilbert Zone
Day job humor.


GNU
The org that's trying to do it all (and is mostly succeeding!).


Gnu Privacy Guard
Home of the GnuPG project and links to (so far, very sparse) documentation and other crypto sites.


PGP Freeware
Get the free PGP from MIT.


Steve Henson's Web site
Henson is a British cryptographic consultant and member of the OpenSSL development team. His site has considerable useful crypto information, including details on the format of Netscape Navigator's certificate database.


HTTP response codes
W3C's list of the valid response codes a server can use to answer a request: 200 OK, 404 Not Found, etc.


The IAIK-Java Group
Austria's institute for applied information processing and communications (IAIK)'s very nice Java crypto toolkit.


Internet RFC 1945 and RFC 2616
The official specification and the pending spec for the HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 protocols, respectively. Stop arguing about how the Web works -- go to the source.


LWP Perl module
A must for any sort of intelligent use of the Web.


www.netcraft.com.
Best site on the 'Net for tracking the prevalence of particular Web servers. Netcraft will even tell you who's running what server.


NSI's whois server
Go straight to the source to see who's squatting on your domain name.


OpenSSL
Open-source implementation in C of all the important SSL and X509 code, including the still-patented RSA public key algorithm. Quite famous for its dirth of documentation.


OpenSSL archives
Archives of the OpenSSL mailing list. Buried among the complaints about lack of documentation here, you'll find some useful stuff.


Phaos Technology
Maker of the Java-based SSLava toolkit for coding SSL clients and servers.


RSA's SSL-J security product
A Java implementation of RSA's BSAFE code for cryptography, X509 certificates, and SSL connections. Probably the most widely used crypto code in the corporate USA.


RSA's Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)
The informal (and only) standards for cryptography on the 'Net, including key exchange/agreement, digital certificate syntax, digital envelopes, password-based encryption and more.


SAX: Simple API for XML
State of the art of event-based XML parsing.


Sleepy Cat Software
Makers of the open-source Berkeley Database system. Netscape's CA certificate store is held in a Berkeley DB file.


Thawte Digital Certificate Services
The "other" Certificate Authority, which was recent acquired by "the" Certificate Authority, Verisign..


TSX
A free and harmless host name referencer. Enter your IP address each time you log onto the 'Net and they'll lend you their domain name and a host name of your choosing. Or, use a robot










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