THE GOLDEN KEY CAMPAIGN for Secure Communications Online


   EFF and other civil liberties groups ask that a key-and-envelope logo
   be displayed to show support for the essential human right of privacy.
   This fundamental building block of free society has been affirmed by
   the U.S. Supreme Court, the constitutions and laws of many countries,
   and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. YOUR privacy is endangered
   by the Arms Export Control Act, the ITAR Regulations, key "escrow"
   policies of the US Federal government, and by the legislatures and
   executive agencies of many other countries.

   Both the key and the envelope symbolize historic means for
   communicating privately and protecting personal information. Today,
   encryption tools provide this privacy in the electronic world. For the
   same reasons you would not send a love letter or your credit card
   number through the mail on the back of a post card, we need to ensure
   that strong encryption -- the electronic version of an envelope --
   becomes and remains more widely available.

   The Golden Key & Envelope will be a way to raise awareness of these
   issues, from locally to globally, and for the quiet voice of reason to
   be heard.


   All Web users are strongly encouraged to place a Golden Key graphic on
   their servers, such as the ones available here, with a link to the URL 
   mentioned below.

   Many versions are available, in both blue and manilla, several sizes.
   There is a horizontal mostly-text version, as well as a banner, both
   available with white or transparent backgrounds. The regular icons are
   available with or without text.

   NOTE: You do NOT need to ask for permission to use these graphics.
   They are public domain, created by the Internet Privacy Coalition.

   If you would like to point your icon at EFF's Golden Key page (the
   page your are reading now), or another Gold Key Site, you can add an
   HTML anchor to your homepage (more details below).

   Please feel free to incorporate the logo into larger banners (as a
   standalone icon, please use the versions with text, so people have
   some idea that there IS a Golden Key campaign and what it is about
   when they first encounter it - not everyone has a color monitor, so
   the verbal name of the campaign is important to pass around.) Thank
   you for your support and activism, and remember - it's YOUR rights you
   are fighting for!

   If you are not sure why you need to participate in the Golden Key
   Campaign and stand up for your privacy, or uncertain how your rights
   are threatened, please see our Internet Privacy & Security Legislation
   Alerts, and Crypto Export Legal News, at (respectively):

   http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/index.html#crypto
   gopher.eff.org, 1/Privacy/ITAR_export/1996_ECPA_SAFE_bills
   ftp.eff.org, /pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/1996_ECPA_SAFE_bills/

   and

   http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/index.html#bern
   gopher.eff.org, 1/Legal/Cases/Bernstein_v_DoS
   ftp.eff.org, /pub/Legal/Cases/Bernstein_v_DoS/

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If you'd prefer download the Golden Key graphics via WWW, try the URL:

http://www.eff.org/goldkey.html

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                Sample HTML anchors for Gold Key icons

To point to the Golden Key Page at EFF:

 <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/goldkey.html">
 <IMG SRC="gkey_manilla_plain_md.gif" ALT=""><BR>
 Join the Golden Key Online Privacy Campaign!</A>

or (to point to the Internet Privacy Coalition):


 <A HREF="http://www.privacy.org/ipc/">
 <IMG SRC="gkey_manilla_plain_md.gif" ALT=""><BR>
 Join the Golden Key Online Privacy Campaign!</A>

or (to point to the Encryption Policy Resource Page):


 <A HREF="http://www.crypto.com">
 <IMG SRC="gkey_manilla_plain_md.gif" ALT=""><BR>
 Join the Golden Key Online Privacy Campaign!</A>

NOTE: you need to make a local copy of the
Gold Key graphic you will use (gkey_manilla_plain_md.gif
in this example), and put the appropriate
path/filename in the SRC link.  Please do not
point to EFF's copy of the icon - several
thousand people doing this will swamp our server!