Research Papers

List of good research papers.

This is a list of some of the research papers I liked. You learn a lot of stuff by reading them.

Performance and scalability

1. Facebook software architecture

2. What everyone should know about memory
https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf 

Cryptography


1. Analyzing Forged SSL Certificates in the Wild
A very good writeup to understand SSL in general and the occurrence of MiTM attacks over the internet.
https://www.linshunghuang.com/

2. Analysis of the Linux Random Number Generator
An extremely well written paper to understand Linux entropy generation mechanism. If you are a beginner it might take you 4 or 5 readings to comprehend properly, but I can assure you the effort is worth the reward. You will be able to understand any other entropy related article/discussion. There have been updates to this paper, but I can recommend reading the original one first.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/086.pdf



Security


1. SQL Injection
Paper by Bernardo Damele, author of sqlmap.
http://www.slideshare.net/inquis/advanced-sql-injection-to-operating-system-full-control-whitepaper-4633857

2. Memory Forensics
http://dspace.dsto.defence.gov.au/dspace/bitstream/dsto/10393/1/DSTO-GD-0770%20PR.pdf

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