# A selected list of RSA WEB References

### Organisations / Standards Bodies

RSA Security web site RSA the holders of the patent, now a company offering security consultancy and products. well linked and kept up to date.
Pretty Good Privacy Encrypted emails and authentication using SSL/RSA technologies.
Open SSL The OPEN SSL project provides libraries and interfaces allowing industrial strength SSL to be incorporated into products and systems.
Apache SSL Apache-SSL is a secure Webserver, based on Apache and SSLeay/OpenSSL. It is licensed under a BSD-style licence, which means, in short, that you are free to use it for commercial or non-commercial purposes, so long as you retain the copyright notices.

### Implementation Notes

Exploring RSA Encryption in OpenSSL Unsurprisingly, source code and implementation details for what is the basis for secure transactions and identification on the web are hard to come by. This page, however, describes coding details and is linked to discussions on RSA implementation.
SSL Protocol description A description of the protocol surrounding encryption and identity verification. Essential reading for those implementing (and not just looking at the mathematical theory) of the SSL/RSA.

### Algorithms

DI Management RSA description A Mathematically Terse description encompassing Key Generation, encryption, Digital Signing, Signature verification, practical notes (choosing primes etc), Computational Efficiency and a formal proof of RSA.
Pure Mathematical description of RSA A pure mathematical description without examples. Very well hyper-linked to all mathematical terms used.
Algorithm run though A run though a complete key generation and encryption sequence using small numbers. Uses the variable 'm' where most texts use 'phi'. Also a Java implementation example.
Simplified Algorithm run though An example for a < 10 bit encrypted sequence. Misses out the phase of finding co-prime keys, but gives an overview of how RSA works.

### Social Impact

ATM Market watch rates RSA technology in top ten inventions in Money The financial world recognises the importance of RSA as a concept rating it alongside credit cards, electronic money transfer, bar codes and the spreadsheet.
Open Letter to Jack Straw : Legal de-cryption Issue A proposed ill-thought out law, forcing people to give up encryption keys (or be jailed) if it were even suspected they had them is mocked in this amusing photo-story.
Government unsure how to regulate encryption An old link, but highlighting the dilemma of the pace of technology, and the difficulties in legislating for it.
A Site selling RSA certificates One commercial side of RSA and SSL. Certificates from 'trusted' authorities for sale.