Resources For Starting Systems and Software Security Research
This page compiles a list of research papers and other resources for beginners in systems and software security research, with a focus on language-based security. Note that these readings were selected not because they are easy, but because they are seminal or influential.
| 1975 | IEEE | The Protection of Information in Computer Systems |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | SOSP | Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation |
| 1996 | PaX | Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit |
| 2003 | PaX | ASLR |
| 2007 | CCS | The Geometry of Innocent Flesh on the Bone: Return-into-libc without Function Calls (on the x86) |
| 2013 | Oakland | SoK: Eternal War in Memory |