[AusNOG] Lets Encrypt

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-ausnog at reub.net>
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
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> Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 16:03
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Lets Encrypt
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> On 19/11/2014 10:59 AM, Sam Wilson wrote:
>>  Exactly why Peter titled a chapter in his book "Security Guarantees
>>  from vending machines" -
>>  https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf
> 
> Having spent (probably far too much) time today reading that PDF, I 
> can't do anything but highly recommend this book.  It's both 
> entertaining, practical and very enlightening reading.
> 
> I never thought I'd see security and humour go together in the same 
> book, either.  The dry sarcasm is priceless.
> 

So the above has gone on my list of things to read.

I highly recommend Ross Anderson's Security Engineering (although the 2nd edition is also on my list of things to read), of which both editions are now freely available as PDFs. The different thing about it is that it describes many examples of security engineering that are not specifically information security e.g., utility billing/metering security, nuclear weapon security, printed currency security, banking security etc., with the goal that mistakes that have been made in these other areas should be learned from and avoided, rather than repeated in information security.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html






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