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Top 30 Papers in Infosec

Max Dornseif has a post titled “Top 18 Papers in Information Security,” with 28 papers. But who’s counting?

Its a fascinating exercise, and I’m glad to see papers from Phrack. I’d suggest that they define top: Most influential? Most cited? Most important? I do think that no paper which isn’t available to the public via the internet should be considered for their list.

I’d suggest that they add “Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt” and one of the SSL specs; perhaps V2?

4 comments on "Top 30 Papers in Infosec"

  • Chris Walsh says:

    No Steve Bellovin? No Wietse Venema? No Ptacek and Newsham?
    Hmmmm…

  • adam says:

    1) ahh, but which Bellovin or Venema paper?
    2) Comment on Max’s blog! 🙂

  • Uwe Hermann says:

    Top 18 Papers in Information Security

    Maximilian Dornseif from the Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems at the RWTH Aachen has written a blog pos

  • Top 18 Secuity Papers – add “the 3 laws of security”

    Adam found a “top 18 security papers” list. My suggestion to add to this is Adi Shamir’s recent Turing Award Lecture. I recorded the important slides here, and at least once a week I find myself coping one or other…

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