Early Computer Security Papers, Part I

Early Computer Security Papers
This list of papers was initially distributed on CD-ROM at NISSC '98. These papers are unpublished, seminal works in computer security. They are papers every serious student of computer security should read. They are not easy to find. The goal of this collection is to make them widely available. This list was compiled by the Computer Security Laboratory of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Davis. See Acknowledgements.

Table of Contents
How To Use This Collection
List of Papers
Background and Organization
Acknowledgements
Paper Keywords and Abstracts/Introductions

How To Use This Collection
All papers are stored in Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format). You need a PDF reader to read them. You can get one free of charge at Adobe's web site; click on the icon there marked "Get Acrobat Reader." The documents were produced with Adobe Acrobat version 3.0.
If you have a web browser you can use this interface to access the papers. If you want to see the PDF description, look at the file called Overview.pdf.
Paper descriptions are in the file Papers.pdf. That file is searchable. The papers themselves are not searchable. They are images, not text.
A copy of these instructions is in the text file README.txt.
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List of Papers
Click on the citation to read a description of the importance of the paper; click on the file to read the paper itself.
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bibliographic citation
ande72.pdf
James P. Anderson, Computer Security Technology Planning Study, ESD-TR-73-51, ESD/AFSC, Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA 01731 (Oct. 1972) [NTIS AD-758 206]
ande80.pdf
James P. Anderson, Computer Security Threat Monitoring and Surveillance, James P. Anderson Co., Fort Washington, PA (Apr. 1980)
bell76.pdf
David E. Bell and Leonard La Padula, Secure Computer System: Unified Exposition and Multics Interpretation, ESD-TR-75-306, ESD/AFSC, Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA 01731 (1975) [DTIC AD-A023588]
bisb78.pdf
Richard Bisbey II and Dennis Hollingworth, Protection Analysis: Final Report, ISI/SR-78-13, USC/Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, CA 90291 Marina Del Rey, CA 90291 (May 1978)
dod85.pdf
Department of Defense, Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (Orange Book), DoD 5200.28-STD (1983, 1985)
ford78.pdf
Ford Aerospace, Secure Minicomputer Operating System (KSOS): Executive Summary Phase I: Design, Western Development Labratories Division, Palo Alto, CA 94303 (April 1978)
karg74.pdf
Paul A. Karger and Roger R. Schell, MULTICS Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis, ESD-TR-74-193 Vol. II, ESD/AFSC, Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA 01731 (June 1974).
lind76.pdf
Theodore A. Linden, Operating System Structures to Support Security and Reliable Software, NBS Technical Note 919, Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, National Bureau of Standards, US Department of Commerce, Washington DC 20234 (Aug. 1976)
myer80.pdf
Philip Myers, Subversion: The Neglected Aspect of Computer Security, Master Thesis. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93940 (June 1980)
neum75.pdf
Peter G. Neumann, L. Robinson, Karl N. Levitt, R. S. Boyer, and A. R. Saxena, A Provably Secure Operating System, M79-225, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (June 1975)
niba79.pdf
Grace H. Nibaldi, Proposed Technical Evaluation Criteria for Trusted Computer Systems, M79-225, The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730 (Oct. 1979)
scha75.pdf
J. M. Schacht, Jobstream Separator System Design, MTR-3022 Vol. 1, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730 (May 1975).
sche73.pdf
Roger R. Schell, Peter J. Downey, and Gerald J. Popek, Preliminary Notes on the Design of Secure Military Computer Systems, MCI-73-1, ESD/AFSC, Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA 01731 (Jan. 1973)
schi75.pdf
W. L. Schiller, The Design and Specification of a Security Kernel for the PDP-11/45, MTR-2934, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730 (Mar. 1975)
ware70.pdf
Willis Ware, Security Controls for Computer Systems (U): Report of Defense Science Board Task Force on Computer Security; Rand Report R609-1, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA (Feb. 1970)
whit74.pdf
J. Whitmore, A. Bensoussan, P. Green, D. Hunt, A. Robziar, and J. Stern, Design for MULTICS Security Enhancements, ESD-TR-74-176, ESD/AFSC, Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA 01731 (Dec. 1973).
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