Sean Peisert

Computer Security Research Links

Computer Security History and Organizations

Computer Security Archives Project at UC Davis

History of the Security and Privacy Symposium

History, IEEE Security and Privacy Technical Committee

Bletchley Park

Multics Security

National Cryptologic Museum

NITRD Cyber Security

Permissive Action Links (thanks to Steve Bellovin)

Science of Security Virtual Organization

Computer Security Newsletters

Cipher (Computer Security CFPs, Academic Computer Security Job Listings)

RISKS Digest

Major Security and Privacy Research Journals and Technical Magazines

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS; née ACM Transactions on Information and System Security - TISSEC)

IEEE Security & Privacy (historical and visual index)

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

Proceedings on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs)

Other, Selected Journals

ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice

International Journal of Information Security (IJIS; Springer)

Journal of Computer Security (JCS; IOS Press)

Journal of Cybersecurity (Oxford University Press)

Journal of Sensitive Cyber Research and Engineering (JSCoRE)

Transactions on Data Privacy (TDP)

USENIX Computing Systems (defunct; 1988–1996)

USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems (JETS) (defunct; 2013–2015)

"Big 4" Security Research Conferences

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland") (since 1980)

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (since 1993)

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (since 1997)

USENIX Security Symposium (since 1993)

Other, Selected, Important Security Research Conferences and Workshops

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) (since 1985)

IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (née Workshop; CSF) (since 1988)

IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference (SecDev) (since 2016)

IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) (since 2016)

IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) (since 2008)

National Information Systems Security Conference (NISSC) (defunct; 1977–2000)

New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) (since 1992)

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) (since 2000)

International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) (since 1998)

Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) (since 2005)

USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) (since 1992)

Security, Privacy, and Cryptography Textbooks and Reference Books

Matt Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science

Paul C. van Oorschot, Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels

Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, and Scott A. Vanstone, Handbook of Applied Cryptography

Cynthia Dwork and Aaron Roth, The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy

Ross Anderson, Security Engineering

Distinguished Security Papers

Annual Science of Security Best Paper Competition

ACM CCS Test of Time Awards

ACSAC Test of Time Awards

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Inaugural Test of Time Awards

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Systemization of Knowledge Papers (thanks to David Evans)

NDSS Test of Time Awards

USENIX Test of Time Awards

Influential Security Papers (thanks to Konrad Rieck)

Computer Science Libraries

 

Technical Reports / Open Access Repositories:

arXiv Computing Research Repository (CoRR) (Cryptography and Security)

eScholarship Open Access Library (my pubs)

 

Find academic research papers with: Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, DBLP, CiteSeerX, and/or SemanticScholar.

Research, Academia, Graduate School

The Heilmeier Catechism

How to Increase the Chances Your Paper is Accepted at ACM SIGCOMM

Mihir Bellare's advice on graduate school and research

New Music

Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise (blog)

Empyrean Ensemble at UC Davis

La Jolla Symphony & Chorus

red fish blue fish

Sacramento State Festival of New American Music (FeNAM)

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players

Other Links

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (free, online)

"The Character of Physical Law" (video)

Rainbow's End, by Vernor Vinge