Front Matter

only for RuBoard - do not distribute or recompile

Web Security, Privacy & Commerce, 2nd Edition

Copyright 2001 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America.

Published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472.

O'Reilly & Associates books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://safari.oreilly.com). For more information contact our corporate/institutional sales department: 800-998-9938 or [e-mail].

Nutshell Handbook, the Nutshell Handbook logo, and the O'Reilly logo are registered trademarks of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. was contributed by Lorrie Cranor of AT&T Labs-Research. It is copyright AT&T and reprinted with permission. The section entitled "Brad Biddle on Digital Signatures and E-SIGN" () was contributed by Brad Biddle. It is copyright Brad Biddle and reprinted with permission.

Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in caps or initial caps. The association between the image of a whale shark and the topic of web security, privacy, and commerce is a trademark of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

only for RuBoard - do not distribute or recompile