Reading List

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This list is a compilation of classic papers, my personal favorite readings, and what I am currently reading in the fields of computer science and cybersecurity.

Current Reading List

• Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit by Aleph One (1996)

• File System Forensic Analysis by Brian Carrier (2005)

• Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig (2012)

• The Art of Memory Forensics: Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory by Michael Hale Ligh, Andrew Case, Jamie Levy, and AAron Walters (2014)

• Intelligence-Driven Incident Response: Outwitting the Adversary by Scott J. Roberts and Rebekah Brown (2017)

Computer Science

• Go To Statement Considered Harmful by Edsger Dijkstra (1968)

• The Unix Time-Sharing System by Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson (1974)

• Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System by Leslie Lamport (1978)

• End-To-End Arguments in System Design by Jerry Saltzer, David Reed, and David Clark (1984)

Cybersecurity

• How to Share a Secret by Adi Shamir (1979)

• Security without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete by David Chaum (1981)

• Reflections on trusting trust by Ken Thompson (1984)

• An Intrusion-Detection Model by Dorothy Denning (1987)

• Why Cryptosystems Fail by Ross Anderson (1994)

• Prudent Engineering Practice for Cryptographic Protocols by Martin Abadi and Roger Needham (1996)

• Programming Satan's Computer by Ross Anderson and Roger Needham (2005)

• Digital Evidence Preservation by Barbara Guttman and Douglas White (2022)

• Digital Investigation Techniques: A NIST Scientific Foundation Review by James Lyle, Barbara Guttman, John Butler, Kelly Sauerwein, Christina Reed, and Corrine Lloyd (2022)

• Sources of error in digital forensics by Graeme Horsman (2024)

For digital forensics readings, also check out r/computerforensics's reading list. SWGDE also publishes best practices for forensic practitioners.

Technology and Society

• The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by Phillip Rogaway (2015)
• “A Stalker’s Paradise”: How Intimate Partner Abusers Exploit Technology by Diana Freed, Jackeline Palmer, Diana Minchala, Karen Levy, Thomas Ristenpart, and Nicola Dell (2018)
• The Surveillance AI Pipeline by Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, William Agnew, Myra Cheng, Kentrell Owens, Luca Soldaini, and Abeba Birhane (2023)

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