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Ask HN: What are the fundamental “must read” papers on software security

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Here's a few to kick it off:

Ken Thompson - Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman - New Directions in Cryptography (1976): https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs380s/dh.pdf (not strictly software security but still a fantastic & important read)

Dan Bernstein - Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0 (2007): https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf

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Not a paper but a blog, anyone know sites like https://latacora.micro.blog/?

The LangSec papers(lenguage based security, Meredith Peterson ?).

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