Readings for (Firewall) Software Developers
[this incomplete list includes only those books that i consider
indispensible, excellent or
very good in my experience; any suggestions for additions
welcome.]
Networking, Operating Systems
W. Richard Stevens
Unix Network Programming
Prentice-Hall, 1990
W. Richard Stevens
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols
Addison-Wesley, 1994
Gary R. Wright and W. Richard Stevens
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation
Addison-Wesley, 1995
W. Richard Stevens
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions,
HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols
Addison-Wesley, 1996
Marshall McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, John S. Quarterman
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System
Addison-Wesley, 1996
Firewalls, Cryptography
William R. Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin
Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker
Addison-Wesley, 1994
D. Brant Chapman and Elizabeth D. Zwicky
Building Internet Firewalls
O'Reilly & Associates, 1995
Bruce Schneier
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in
C
John Wiley & Sons, 1996 (Second Edition)
Dorothy E. Denning
Cryptography and Data Security
Addison-Wesley, 1982
Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner
Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World
PTR Prentice-Hall, 1995
Programming, Algorithms, Data Structures
W. Richard Stevens
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
Addison-Wesley, 1992
Donald E. Knuth
The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms
Addison-Wesley, 1973
Donald E. Knuth
The Art of Computer Programming: Sorting and Searching
Addison-Wesley, 1973
Donald E. Knuth
The Art of Computer Programming: Seminumerical Algorithms
Addison-Wesley, 1981
David R. Hanson
C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating
Reusable Software
Addison-Wesley, 1997
Gaston H. Gonnet and Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures
Addison-Wesley, 1991 (Second Edition)
Programming Languages
Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
The C Programming Language
Prentice-Hall, 1989 (Second Edition)
Samuel Harbison and Guy Steele, Jr.
C: A Reference Manual (4th edition)
Prentice-Hall, 1995
P. J. Plauger
The Standard C Library
Prentice-Hall, 1992
James Gosling, Bill Joy and Guy Steele
The Java Language Specification
Addison-Wesley, 1996
Don Libes
Exploring Expect
O'Reilly & Associates, 1995
Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Randal L. Schwartz
Programming Perl (2nd edition)
O'Reilly & Associates, 1996
Programming in General
Jon L. Bentley
Programming Pearls
Addison-Wesley, 1986
Jon L. Bentley
More Programming Pearls
Addison-Wesley, 1988
Jon L. Bentley
Writing Efficient Programs
Prentice-Hall, 1982
Performance Analysis
Raj Jain
The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis
Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation
and Modeling
John Wiley and Sons, 1991
General Reference
Patrick Chan and Rosanna Lee
The Java Class Libraries: An Annotated Reference
Addison-Wesley, 1997
Standards Documents
IEEE/ANSI Std 1003.1, Portable Operating System Inferface (POSIX)
Part 1: System Application: Pogram Interface
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1996
Other OK-Useful Books
Ken Arnold and James Gosling
The Java Programming Language
Addison-Wesley, 1996
Craig Hunt
TCP/IP Network Administration
O'Reilly & Associates, 1992