On Monday 09 August 2004 01:27, Wall, Kevin allegedly wrote: > Matt Setzer wrote... > > > It's been kind of quiet around here lately - hopefully just because > > everyone is off enjoying a well deserved summer (or winter, for > > those of you in the opposite hemisphere) break. In an effort to > > stir things up a bit, I thought I'd try to get some opinions about > > good foundational materials for security professionals. (I'm > > relatively new to the field, and would like to broaden my > > background knowledge.) Specifically, what are the top five or ten > > security papers that you'd recommend to anyone wanting to learn > > more about security? What are the papers that you keep printed > > copies of and reread every few years just to get a new perspective > > on them? > > Okay, for starters, in no particular order: >
<snip great list> I have two other items that I'd add to the list. Neither are really papers, though. One is the NIST Introduction to Computer Security (SP 800-12 at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-12/handbook.pdf. The other is Bruce Schneier's book _Secrets_and_Lies_ . . . Cheers, George Capehart -- George W. Capehart Key fingerprint: 3145 104D 9579 26DA DBC7 CDD0 9AE1 8C9C DD70 34EA "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine." -- RFC 1925
