This file: ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/01-README information about this subdirectory: The topics of this directory will be all issues of computer and network security and related subjects. There are several subdirectories concentrating on special issues. See there for further information. ----- directory: /pub/csir/ All information belonging to Computer Security Incident Response: the teams, their advisories or bulletins and general information about problems and guidelines in incident handling. directory: /pub/dfncert/ This directory contains information about the DFN-CERT. Until now there is mostly brief information in *german* about the project in ascii and postscript format. [NOTE: This is a link to the directory /pub/csir/dfncert!] directory: /pub/dfnpca/ This directory contains information about the DFN-PCA (A Policy Certification Authority for the German Research Network). [NOTE: This is a link to the directory /pub/pca] directory: /pub/docs/ This subdirectory includes material about any security aspects that don't fit into the other subdirectories. directory: /pub/firewalls/ Informations, techniques and discussions concerning firewalls to protect local networks against internet/wide area network attacks. directory: /pub/ietf/ Some working groups of the IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force - are especially important to Computer Security Incident Response Teams. To allow an easier access to US located archives to working groups are mirrored. directory: /pub/mail-lists/ This directory contains several subdirectories, each for a special security relevant mailing list. directory: /pub/pca/ This directory contains information about the DFN-PCA (A Policy Certification Authority for the German Research Network). directory: /pub/pem/ Information about the Privacy enhancement for Internet electronic mail (PEM). You will find tools, the actual RFCs and other relevant documents for using or developing PEM. directory: /pub/pgp/ Several versions of the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) package originally developed by Philip Zimmermann. [NOTE: This is a link to the directory /pub/tools/crypt/pgp] directory: /pub/pub/ [No information yet available!] directory: /pub/tools/ This directory contains several tools for security experts and system administrators. The tools are presented without any warrenty. There exist separate subdirectories for the topics: administration, auditing, crypto- graphy (encryption of messages, privacy enhanced mail), networking, password and misc. directory: /pub/vendor/ Vendor related information such as support lines or patch status. directory: /pub/virus/ A link to the Virus-Test-Center AnonFTP-archive. Several documents and tools, the VTC-catalogue.