1) What is the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)?

     -   EFF was formed in July 1990, it

     -   As an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States.

     -   Supported by donations and is based in San Francisco, California, with staff members in Washington, D.C.

     -   There works are providing funds for legal defense in court, they defend individuals and new technologies from the chilling effects of baseless legal                     threats.

     -    There work also exposes government malfeasance, provides guidance to the government and courts, organizes political action and mass mailings,           supports some new technologies which it believes preserve personal freedoms, maintains a database and web sites of related news and information,           monitors and challenges potential legislation that it believes would infringe on personal liberties and fair use, and solicits a list of what it considers patent           abuses with intentions to defeat those that it considers without merit.

There mission are as follows:

     -     Engage in and support educational activities which increase popular understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by developments in           computing and telecommunications.

     -     Develop among policy-makers a better understanding of the issues underlying free and open telecommunications, and support the creation of legal and           structural approaches which will ease the assimilation of these new technologies by society.

     -     Raise public awareness about civil liberties issues arising from the rapid advancement in the area of new computer-based communications media.

     -     Support litigation in the public interest to preserve, protect, and extend First Amendment rights within the realm of computing and telecommunications            technology.

     -     Encourage and support the development of new tools which will endow non-technical users with full and easy access to computer-based      telecommunications".

2) Who is Lawrence Lessig?

     -      Lawrence Lessig is   an American academic and political activist.

     -      He is best known for his works on reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum for technology applications

     -      The founding board member Creative Commons

     -      Board member of the Software freedom law center

     -      Former board member of EFF

3) What is Creative Commons?

     -     Creative Commons (CC)  is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States

     -     It is devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

     -     The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses for free to the public.

     -     These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. 

4) Who is Bruce Schneier?

     -     Is an American cryptographer, computer security specialist, and writer.

     -     He is the author of several books on computer security and cryptography

     -     The founder and chief technology officer of BT Counterpane, formerly Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.

     -     In 2000, Schneier published Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. In 2003, Schneier published Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security           in an Uncertain World.

5) What is the Advanced Encryption Standard?

     -     In cryptography, it is is an encryption standard that comprises three block ciphers, AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256, adopted from a larger collection           originally published as Rijndael.

     -     Each of these ciphers has a 128-bit block size, with key sizes of 128, 192 and 256 bits, respectively. The AES ciphers have been analyzed extensively and             are now used worldwide, as was the case with its predecessor,the Data Encryption Standard (DES).

     -     The Rijndael cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, and submitted by them to the AES selection                       process. Rijndael is a portmanteau of the names of the two inventors.

6) What is PGP?

     -    PGP  is a computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication.

     -    PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting e-mails to increase the security of e-mail communications. 

     -    PGP and other similar products follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880) for encrypting and decrypting data.

     -    PGP encryption uses a serial combination of hashing, data compression, symmetric-key cryptography, and, finally, public-key cryptography; each step uses      one of several supported algorithms. Each public key is bound to a user name and/or an e-mail address. 

7) Who is Phil Zimmerman?

     -     Phil Zimmerman is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world .

     -     He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols, notably ZRTP and Zfone.

sources: http://www.wikipedia.com/ , links provided in http://itethic.pbworks.com/