From: Chris Larson (clarson52@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 22:59:19 GMT-3
NANOG. This is a great list. I have often been informed about why there is
an outage or what carrier is having probs, new worms and/or vulnerability
headed this way etc. For that alone it is worth it. But also for seeing the
carrier perspective on many things and what is happening. I only lurk and I
have found it very valuable.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 9:21 PM
Subject: RE: Cleared SP Lab in RTP
> At 11:53 PM +0100 4/30/04, Richard Dumoulin wrote:
> >I have a bachelor degree in Telecommunications (Politecnica de Madrid in
> >Spain) and for the moment I am interested in theory only,
>
> Do note my correction below.
>
> Then if you want to get some understanding of cryptographic
> algorithms, Schneier is good, and Kahn is just fun as well as
> informative. Start with the NIST and NSA sites, as there's lots of
> free algorithms.
>
> Subscribing to the NANOG list (www.nanog.org) will give you a lot of
> information about current attacks on service providers.
>
>
>
> [URL eater food]
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>
> Another very good source, especially about denial of service but also
> related subjects such as forensics, is Dave Dittrich's page at the
> University of Washington: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/
>
> >
> >--Richard
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Howard C. Berkowitz [mailto:hcb@gettcomm.com]
> >Sent: viernes, 30 de abril de 2004 23:19
> >To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> >Subject: RE: Cleared SP Lab in RTP
> >
> >
> >At 9:45 PM +0100 4/30/04, Richard Dumoulin wrote:
> >>Howard, do you have more specific reading recommendations for
> >>security ? Thanks --Richard(
> >
> >It depends on how deeply you want to get into theory, or also
> >specific applications of security (e.g., for medical networks).
> >
> >How much mathematical background do you have? For some materials,
> >you need some exposure to middling-level security, and if you are
> >getting into algorithms, some abstract algebra (particularly group
> >theory).
>
> That was exposure to middling-level STATISTICS. It's also worth
> looking at Knuth's _The Art of Computer Programming, Volume II:
> Seminumerical Algorithms._ Best description I know of writing and
> testing pseudo-random number generators.
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> >
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> >
> >[url eater food]
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> >
> >Lots of stuff at the NIST resource center, http://csrc.nist.gov/
> >
> >The NSA Rainbow books may be getting dated, but they are freely
> >downloadable (I've not heard of any .us restrictions).
> >http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/index.html
> >
> >As far as books, I highly recommend, as enjoyable reading if nothing
> >else, David Kahn's _The Codebreakers_. Get the 1st edition used if
> >you can; the 2nd edition really doesn't add anything. Stephen
> >Levy's _Hackers_ made the New York Times best seller list, and, if
> >you hunt around, it's freely downloadable. I personally find the
> >history of cryptography to be very interesting and give lots of
> >background. I can give more recommendations there if that's of
> >interest.
> >
> >I'll recommend, for a broad view, Annlee Hines' _Building Survivable
> >Networks_.
> >
> >Bruce Scheier's _Applied Cryptography_ is one of the best books, but
> >I'll warn the math can get heavy.
> >
> >For the IETF, start with the Security Area at
> >http://web.mit.edu/network/ietf/sa/ .Then go to the Working Groups
> >directory at
> >http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html#Security%20Area
> >Get the latest IPSec overview, which, offhand, is RFC2401, and read
> >supporting RFCs as they seem appropriate. Some are readable,
> >some...well, I said to one of the RFCs on partial elliptical function
> >encryption, "If I leave you alone will you leave me alone?"
> >
> >Definitely RFC 2196, the Site Security Handbook.
> >
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