I.  Basics of Public Key Cryptography

A.  How Public Key Cryptography Works

  February 8 and 25, 1999 - Powerpoint Slides for "Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - The Right Combination for Electronic Commerce," Speech in Washington D.C. and Palo Alto, CA, by Charles Merrill of McCarter & English LLP, at the Internet Security Summit, sponsored by American Lawyer Media, Netscape Inc. and Stanford Law School.

August 1, 1996 - ABA Information Security Committee (of ABA Section of Science and Technology) publishes Digital Signature Guidelines, the first comprehensive legal/technical study of PKI.
See the PKI Tutorial at http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsg-toc.html and the free download at http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsgfree.html.

August 1995 - Chapter by Charles Merrill of McCarter & English, LLP, in Computer Law Association The Internet and Business:  A Lawyer's Guide to the Emerging Legal Issues (edited by Joseph F. Ruh, Jr.), entitled "A Cryptography Primer"