The Computer Security Research Center at NIST has a Web page with 16 previously unpublished papers in computer security. What's especially interesting about this collection is that they are from the early days of computer security. The earliest paper is from 1970: Security Controls for Computer Systems: Report of Defense Science Board Task Force on Computer Security (Feb. 1970).
From the Web page intro:
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 These papers are unpublished, seminal works in computer security.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.
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Computer security as a discipline was first studied in the early 1970s, although the issues had influenced the development of many earlier systems such as the Atlas system and MULTICS. Unfortunately, many of the early seminal papers are often overlooked as developers (and sometimes researchers) rediscover problems and solutions, leading to wasted time and development effort.
The information in these papers provides a historical record of how computer security developed, and why. It provides a resource for computer security education. Instructors will be able to assign sets of papers for students to analyze without having to assemble the resource materials. Lastly, it provides a resource for practitioners, to which they can turn to see what has been suggested (and tried) before, under what conditions, and with what results.
This set of 16 papers is the first batch the collectors were able to scan and post. Look for at least 10 more.
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