What's worked in computer science

Looking back at Lampson's conclusions.

to cs history research risc security strategy ... on 28 February 2016

Open Rights Group - Responding to "Nothing to hide, Nothing to fear"

A fairly short article with a number of excellent examples.

to el0805 org privacy security ... on 28 February 2016

titus - Totally Isolated TLS Unwrapping Server

This has some nice examples of good practice in privilege separation. (Pity it's written in C++!)

to networking privilege-separation security software tls ... on 28 February 2016

tsgates/mbox: A lightweight sandbox tool for non-root users

seccomp-based syscall redirection (it's a bit more than just sandboxing; you could do debug/trace stuff with this technique too).

to linux sandbox seccomp security software syscall ... on 28 February 2016

main is usually a function: Writing kernel exploits

A nice introduction, along with some of the mitigations (circa 2012).

to exploit kernel linux security ... on 28 February 2016

attrition.org

This is right on the edge between amusing security-related writing and outright trolling. Some good stuff here, though.

to amusements security ... on 22 January 2016

Clang Hardening Cheat Sheet

clang's equivalents of the GCC hardening options. Mostly the same.

to c c++ clang compiler gcc hardening security ... on 16 January 2016

diafygi/acme-tiny

A minimal ACME client (for LetsEncrypt). This actually works very well; much less finicky than the official client.

to acme letsencrypt security software tls ... on 31 December 2015

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

Probably best viewed as starting points for discussion...

to design philosophy security software-engineering ... on 31 December 2015

Articles on Historical Cryptography

Going back to the 16th century. Lots of interesting stuff here.

to code cryptography history security ... on 20 November 2015

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