Jon A. Solworth

Security and Operating System Links

These are links in the area of Computer Security and Operating Systems. I hope you find them useful.

Security Links

sites

• IEEE TC on Security and Privacy
• IFIP TC11
• NIST Publications
• Stupid Security
• OS events

security reading

• National Information Assurance Training and Education Consortium (NIATEC)
• security on the internet
• x509 certificates
• Computer Security Online: security magazine for CSOs
• Risks Digest: weekly discussion of Risks to the Public from Computers and Related Systems
• Cryptogram Bruce Schneier's excellent blog commenting on computer security with lots of links to background reading.
• Anti-phishing.org is a member-based organization which tracks phishing attack.
• EFF's analysis of trusted computing (see also Ross Anderson's home page which has a FAQ about this technology).
• President's Information Technology Advisory Committee: Subcommittee on Cyber Security Update
• Worm FAQ
• Butler Lampson's 1997 talk on Operating System vs. Network Security
• Crypto FAQ: Crypto FAQ
• Handbook of Cryptography: Handbook of Cryptography

privacy reading

• Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
• Anonimizer and privacy on the internet
• Electronic Privacy Information Center

other security projects

• Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
• Trusted BSD
• Open BSD: High security flavor of BSD
• EROS OS: Extremely reliable operating system
• Asbestos OS: A capabilities based operating system using disributed labeling model
• LOMAC: Low water mark security policy to protect critical system
• Rule Set Based Access Control
• Openwall
• GRSecurity RBACs, MACs, and many attack prevention techniques (protection against buffer overflows, etc.) Originally a port of openwall

general purpose computer science

• Computer Science Bibliographies on line
• Citeseer on-line papers and links
• Usenix
• IEEE Explorer IEEE papers on-line (UIC-only proxy access to IEEE Explorer)
• ACM Portal ACM papers on-line ( UIC-only proxy access to ACM Portal)
• Springer Link Springer papers on-line (UIC-only proxy access to Springer Link)
• (UIC-only proxy access to UIC library)
• Internet RFCs RFCs on-line, given RFC is at rfcX.pdf where X is the RFC number.

folks

• Ross Anderson
• Steven M. Bellovin
• Dan J. Bernstein
• Carl M. Ellison
• Virgil Gligor
• Dieter Gollmann
• Jim Horning
• Butler Lampson
• Ronald Rivest
• Ravi Sandhu
• Bruce Schneier
• David Wagner

Kernel and OS Links

• Xen Virtual Machine
• IEEE Baseline Operating Systems Security Working Group
• Linux Security Modules: Hooks for providing new protection models
• kernelnewbies.org
• proc file system
• Linux cross referencing project (browse linux kernel here)
• Upcoming Changes for the next linux kernel stable series (2.6)
• Status of current kernel development branch
• User-Mode Linux: do kernel development in user space w/o root privileges and reboots, and with inmproved debugging
  • User Mode Linux: Run the unix kernel in user space
  • User Mode Linux (UML)---How to do kernel development safely and without rebooting your computer
  • User Mode Linux tutorial

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