National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer Security Resource Center (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/index.html)
Here you will find the recommendations of the United States government related to cryptographic standards and applications.
AES Algorithm (Rijndael) Information (http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/rijndael/)
The specification and a sample implementation of Rijndael in C is available here.
The Block Cipher Rijndael (http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/)
This is the original page for information about the Rijndael cipher. The page is not maintained at this time. However, having been selected as the standard, there is a considerable amount of information elsewhere.
Source Code for AES Finalist Algorithms (http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/round2/r2algs-code.html)
The source code for the candidates for the AES algorithm can be found at this Web site.
MARS cipher (http://www.research.ibm.com/security/mars.html)
Another contender for AES, documentation describing the algorithm is available here.
RC6 Block Cipher (http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/rc6/index.html)
This is the RSA Laboratories submission for the AES algorithm.
SERPENT (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/serpent.html)
The runner-up in the competition for AES, the SERPENT algorithm and implementation is described in papers available at this site.
Twofish symmetric algorithm (http://www.counterpane.com/twofish.html)
A contender in the competition to select an algorithm for AES, Twofish is an impressive, unencumbered offering. Counterpane Labs' site provides information about its algorithm, which is unpatented, uncopyrighted, and free for use.
The Kerberos Authentication Service v.5 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1510.txt)
This document provides an overview and specification for Kerberos v.5.
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/security/)
This is the homepage for the SAML 1.0 Specification Set. From here you can also follow the proceedings as the standard is developed.
XML Signature, XML Encryption and Canonicalization, and XKMS (http://www.w3c.org)
These standards are important pieces of work that augment SAML to provide additional features.
The Liberty Alliance (http://www.projectliberty.org/)
The home page for the organization whose charter is to promote interoperability and open systems for network identification. The site is surprisingly bare at the moment, but should become useful shortly.
Microsoft Passport Authentication Service (http://www.passport.com/)
Information about signing up to become a .NET Passport member, as well as information for developers, can be found at this site.
Transport Layer Security (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tls-charter.html)
The IETF working group for TLS maintains its homepage here. Internet Drafts and Request for Comments for TLS and related technologies are available.
PGP (http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html)
This is the homepage for the free noncommercial version of PGP.
Free Haven (http://www.freehaven.net/)
Information about this interesting P2P project is provided at this Web page.
Free Riding on Gnutella, E. Adar and B. Huberman, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/adar/)
This is an interesting look at Gnutella and usage patterns.
Intel Peer-to-Peer Trusted Library (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ptptl)
The library and source code for Win32 and Linux platforms is available at this project homepage.
Java 2 Standard Edition platform version 1.4 (http://java.sun.com/j2se/)
Sun's software development kits, documentation, and tutorials for the Java programming language can be found here.
Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface Version 2 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2078.txt)
This RFC defines GSS-API and serves as the base for the specifications related to the GSS-API. RFC 2744 defines the C bindings, and RFC 2583 defines the Java bindings.
