The Federal Maze

Negotiating the information maze.

The internet is the world's largest information source. And it is still growing rapidly--by 20 million new pages a month according to some estimates. Internet usage is also increasing. It was estimated that 140 million people were using this resource in 1996. Last year, that number had grown to an estimated 605 million (NUA Internet Surveys, 2003). One of its functions is to be a source of info...

Navigating the Information Maze

The strategic approach that organisations take to the management of information, and the knowledge that it can provide, is of increasing importance today. Globalisation of business and the move to networked organisational structures present new challenges to IS professionals to support organisational strategies through the development of appropriate systems. Systems are required to ensure that ...

The Prime Number Maze

This paper introduces a fascinating maze based solely on the distribution of the prime numbers. Although it was originally designed as a simple puzzle, the maze revealed some rather startling properties of the primes. The rules are so simple and natural that traversing the maze seems more like exploring a natural cave formation than a maze of human design. We will describe this maze using the l...

Into the neural maze

The US Federal PKI and the Federal Bridge Certification Authority

The goals of the U.S. Federal PKI are to create a cross-governmental, ubiquitous, interoperable Public Key Infrastructure and the development and use of applications which employ that PKI in support of Agency business processes. In addition, the U.S. Federal PKI must interoperate with State governments and with other national governments. Our goals recognize that the purpose of deploying a PKI ...