RFCs 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829 came out today. These RFCs describe in detail the IPSEC protocol, which is designed to secure the internet from the ground up. IPSEC permits the cryptographic encapsulation of all your IP traffic, which means all your internet communications. IPSEC is now a Proposed Standard. Please read them and help us in the effort to universally deploy this protocol. Still to come will be a key management system. The current notion is to store RSA keys in the DNS -- a proposal to do this made by Eastlake and Kaufman has been accepted by the IETF. Eastlake is now working on a certificate format that will be an alternative to X.509. The keys will be used by a modified version of the STS protocol (a signed Diffie-Hellman exchange) that is being worked on by Phil Karn -- the key management system is to be called "Photuris" and is currently an internet draft. Again, *we need your help*. Cypherpunks write code. Help us make the internet safe for personal privacy by contributing to this effort. Perry