- Standards and specs
- The Ten Minute CEO Briefing On PKI, Digital Certificates, and Trust in Electronic Transactions
- Public Key Cryptography Standards
- Netscape Certificate Specifications
- Netscape Step-Up Encryption
- Certificate Resources for NS Certification Server
- Public Key Cryptography Standards
- SSL 3.0
- S/MIME
- Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) (pkix)
- S/MIME Mail Security
- RFC 1847 Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted
- RFC2311 S/MIME Version 2 Message Specification
- RFC2312 S/MIME Version 2 Certificate Handling
- RFC 2440 OpenPGP Message Format
- OpenSSL
- OpenSSL-cookbook
- ApacheSSL
- ApacheSSL-cookbook
- OpenCA
- Set up your own Certification Authority using free software
- Ten Risks of PKI: What You’re Not Being Told About Public Key Infrastructure (B. Schneier, C. Ellison)
- OpenSource PKI-Book
- Configuring IIS 4.0 Certificate Authentication
- SPHINX-Projekt (Sichere Ende-zu-Ende-Kommunikation für die Bundesverwaltung)
- Betriebshandbuch Lokale Registrierungsstelle (local RA Operating Guide – german)
- Betriebshandbuch Zertifizierungsstelle (CA Operating Guide – german)
- Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) (pkix) Drafts & RFCs
- x509v3 – Final draft (1 December/June 30).
- x509v4 – draft V7 (updated Editions)
- OID description for 2.5.29 – certificateExtensions (id-ce)
- register your own OID
- PKI Survey – X.509
- X.509 Style Guide (Peter Gutmann)
- OpenCard Framework is a standard framework announced by an Industry consortium that provides for interoperable smart cards solutions across many hardware and software platforms.
- What’s so smart about smart cards? is an overview of smart card technology produced by the Smart Card Forum and Gemplus
- The Terms you Need to Know
- Smart Cards: Readings and Resources University of North Carolina
- Smart Cards and Electronic Payment Systems CRYPTO GRUOP of University de Louvain (Belgium)
- Global Payment Card Network
- Smart Card Alliance
- Smart Card Knowledge Base from SCIA Smart Card Industry Association
- Netscape Directory SDK Information and Download
- A System Administrator’s View of LDAP
- LDAP World
- LDAP: Fulfilling the Promise for Directory-Enabled Networks
- An LDAP Roadmap & FAQ
- A Scalable, Deployable, Directory Service Framework for the Internet
- LDAP (PKIX)
- LDAP for Solaris 8
- Projects related to LDAP/Directories deployment worldwide
- pureTLS PureTLS is a free Java-only implementation of the SSLv3 and TLSv1 (RFC2246) protocols.
- OpenSSL free SSL/TLS toolkit
- S/MIME perl modul
- ssldump is an SSLv3/TLS network protocol analyzer.
- OpenCA the OpenCA project
- cryptlib cryptlib is a powerful security toolkit from Peter Gutmann
- SSLava and other encryption toolkits from Phaos Technology
- Tools and Software for PKI based Internet applications List at PKI Coord
- Download the S/MIME 40-bit RC2 Cracking Screen Saver
- TrustedMIME from SSE Ltd.
- Zertifikate der Bundesbehörde
- Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post (Genehmigte Zertifizierungsstellen)
- Zertifizierungsinstanz der Deutschen Telekom AG
- Zertifizierungsinstanz der Deutschen Post AG
- Zertifizierungsinstanz der Medizon AG
- Zertifizierungsinstanz der Bundesnotarkammer
- Zertifizerungsstellen der Steuerberatungskammern (Datev)
- Liste weiterer Zertifizierungsinstanzen
- Crypto-Gram Newsletter from Counterpane
- FTP-Sites and Links for Cryptographic Software and Information
- more cryptography
- UniCERT and EuroTrust
- Identrus