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Alex Recommends

$Date: 2011-02-09 10:58:20 $

Below you fill find hyperlinks to web sites that I find worthwhile visiting. Most of the links are related to my work, my interests or simply my strange sense of humor.

Regular routine

• First Monday
• Diagnosed Sounds

Host security & authentication systems

• OpenBSD
• Using IPsec Clients with OpenBSD as Gateway (PGPNet, Soft-PK)
• CrackLib 2.7 README
• CSIRT Handbook
• Designing an Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenes
• CITI's smartcard research
• The Logic of Authentication Protocols
• cryptlib Encryption Toolkit

Network security & protocol analysis

• dsniff
• A Stateful Inspection of FW1 (View the Blackhat presentation)
• Testing a router or firewall

Software Quality Assurance

• A modest proposal - we need a patch penguin - what happens without good source control (a mail thread from the linux kernel list)
• Software Quality Assurance: Documentation and Review
• WWW Formal Technical Review archive
• The Data & Analysis Center for Software
• Requirements Specification Template
• Assembling Configuration Management Environments
• Windows - Software Engineering Odyssy - an excellent look at large-scale software management
• Software Testing Hotlist
• Why Software Still Sucks

Software Security

• Security Code Review by Adam Shostack
• Secure, efficient and Easy C Programming
• Securing Software - Pratice Safe Software Coding
• Secure UNIX Programming FAQ
• Secure Programming for Linux and UNIX
• Off-by-one security flaw explained
• Delivering Signals for Fun and Profit
• Heap overflows
• Secure Interprocess Communication
• Insecure Programming by example
• Reading Computer Programs: Instructor's Guide and Exercises

C programming

• ISO C99 (draft)
• Dinkum C Library Reference
• Programming in C
• Watcom C language reference
• The C Programming Language: Answers to Excercises
• Pointers and arrays in C
• comp.lang.c FAQ
• Programming Loadable Kernel Modules for OpenBSD (as much as I am opposed to LKM..)

Python programming

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - Learning with Python.
• Dive Into Python - Python for experienced programmers.

Assembly programming

• Optimizing assembly code
• Art of Assembly Language Programming