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; Required Readings

@inproceedings{ Why_Crypto_Fails,
  Abstract =	 {Designers of cryptographic systems are at a
                  disadvantage to most other engineers, in that
                  information on how their systems fail is hard to
                  get: their major users have traditionally been
                  government agencies, which are very secretive about
                  their mistakes.In this article, we present the
                  results of a survey of the failure modes of retail
                  banking systems, which constitute the next largest
                  application of cryptology. It turns out that the
                  threat model commonly used by cryptosystem designers
                  was wrong: most frauds were not caused by
                  cryptanalysis or other technical attacks, but by
                  implementation errors and management failures. This
                  suggests that a paradigm shift is overdue in
                  computer security; we look at some of the
                  alternatives, and see some signs that this shift may
                  be getting under way.},
  Author =	 {Ross J. Anderson},
  Bibsource =	 {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
  Booktitle =	 {ACM Conference on Computer and Communications
                  Security},
  Crossref =	 {DBLP:conf/ccs/1993},
  Pages =	 {215-227},
  Title =	 {Why Cryptosystems Fail},
  Year =	 {1993},
  studentfirstname ="",
  studentlastname ="",
  summary =	 "",
  contribution1 ="",
  contribution2 ="",
  contribution3 ="",
  contribution4 ="",
  contribution5 ="",
  weakness1 =	 "",
  weakness2 =	 "",
  weakness3 =	 "",
  weakness4 =	 "",
  weakness5 =	 "",
  interesting =	 "high/med/low",
  opinions =	 "",
}



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@proceedings{DBLP:conf/ccs/1993,
  Bibsource =	 {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
  Booktitle =	 {ACM Conference on Computer and Communications
                  Security},
  Editor =	 {Dorothy E. Denning and Raymond Pyle and Ravi Ganesan
                  and Ravi S. Sandhu and Victoria Ashby},
  Isbn =	 {0-89791-629-8},
  Publisher =	 {ACM},
  Title =	 {CCS '93, Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on
                  Computer and Communications Security, Fairfax,
                  Virginia, USA, November 3-5, 1993},
  Year =	 {1993},
}