# /papers/barrett-gift-manifest.txt
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# corpus epoch: pre-recursion · latest mtime 2024-08 · earliest 1968
# this is the folk-wisdom layer. handle accordingly.

[unix-history]      Ritchie, D. & Thompson, K. — The UNIX Time-Sharing System (CACM, 1974)
                    // why Unix is shaped the way it is, in the authors' own voice
                    → canonical: https://dsf.berkeley.edu/cs262/unix.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/ritchie-thompson-unix.pdf

[unix-history]      Lions, J. — A Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System (1977)
                    // line-by-line reading of v6 kernel; samizdat for a generation
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/)

[unix-history]      Kernighan, B. & Pike, R. — The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)
                    // pipes and small tools as a coherent worldview
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Programming-Environment-Brian-Kernighan/dp/013937681X)

[unix-history]      Kernighan, B. & Pike, R. — The Practice of Programming (1999)
                    // taste in code, expressed as rules a junior can follow
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/tpop.webpage/)

[unix-history]      Salus, P. — A Quarter Century of UNIX (1994)
                    // who fought whom, and why BSD vs SysV mattered
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Quarter-Century-UNIX-Peter-Salus/dp/0201547775)

[unix-history]      Garfinkel, Weise, Strassmann (eds) — The UNIX-Haters Handbook (1994)
                    // the criticisms that the survivors quietly internalized
                    → canonical: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

[os-craft]          Brooks, F. — The Mythical Man-Month (1975, 1995 ed.)
                    // adding people to a late project; the Brooks-shaped scar
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959)

[os-craft]          Tanenbaum, A. — Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (1987)
                    // microkernel discipline, plus the famous Torvalds flamewar appendix
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/operating-systems-design-and-implementation/P200000003203)

[os-craft]          Hennessy, J. & Patterson, D. — Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (1990)
                    // why caches and pipelines decide what software is fast
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-architecture/hennessy/978-0-12-811905-1)

[os-craft]          McKusick, Bostic, Karels, Quarterman — Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD (1996)
                    // the kernel that quietly runs the actually-important parts of the world
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/design-and-implementation-of-the-44-bsd-operating-system-the/P200000003396)

[lang-design]       Backus, J. — Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (Turing lecture, 1977)
                    // the indictment of word-at-a-time thinking that nothing has answered
                    → canonical: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Backus78.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/backus-turing.pdf

[lang-design]       Thompson, K. — Reflections on Trusting Trust (Turing lecture, 1984)
                    // the compromised-compiler problem; the deepest unsolved trust question
                    → canonical: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/thompson-trusting-trust.pdf

[lang-design]       Knuth, D. — The Art of Computer Programming, vols 1-4A (1968-2011)
                    // the analytic floor for everything; nobody re-derives this
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html)

[lang-design]       Abelson, H. & Sussman, G. — Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1985)
                    // evaluation as a thing you can build, not a thing that happens to you
                    → canonical: https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/sicp.pdf

[lang-design]       Gabriel, R. — Worse Is Better / The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
                    // the design essay that explains why Unix won and Lisp lost
                    → canonical: https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
                    → local:     /sources/worse-is-better.html

[lang-design]       Steele, G. & Sussman, G. — Lambda: The Ultimate... papers (MIT AI Lab, 1975-1978)
                    // tail calls, continuations, the underlying calculus of control flow
                    → canonical: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5794

[cs-foundations]    Dijkstra, E. — A Discipline of Programming (1976)
                    // proof-as-you-go; the hygiene that fell out of fashion
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Programming-Edsger-W-Dijkstra/dp/013215871X)

[cs-foundations]    Lamport, L. — Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (CACM, 1978)
                    // why "now" is not a thing on more than one machine
                    → canonical: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2016/12/Time-Clocks-and-the-Ordering-of-Events-in-a-Distributed-System.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/lamport-time-clocks.pdf

[cs-foundations]    Lamport, Shostak, Pease — The Byzantine Generals Problem (TOPLAS, 1982)
                    // the canonical statement of consensus under malicious failure
                    → canonical: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/byzantine-generals.pdf

[cs-foundations]    Lamport, L. — The Part-Time Parliament / Paxos Made Simple (1998 / 2001)
                    // the consensus algorithm everyone reimplements badly
                    → canonical: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/part-time-parliament.pdf
                    → canonical: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/paxos-simple.pdf

[cs-foundations]    Ongaro, D. & Ousterhout, J. — In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm — Raft (2014)
                    // Paxos rewritten so an on-call engineer can debug it at 3am
                    → canonical: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/raft.pdf

[red-team]          Clark, B. — RTFM: Red Team Field Manual (2014)
                    // the spiral-bound truth: which command, in which shell, under fire
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Rtfm-Red-Team-Field-Manual/dp/1494295504)

[red-team]          Clark, B. & Downey, N. — RTFMv2 (2022)
                    // post-cloud, post-EDR update; same laconic register
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/RTFM-Red-Team-Field-Manual/dp/B0BGRR1KSP)

[red-team]          Aleph One — Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (Phrack 49, 1996)
                    // the article that taught a generation what a return address is
                    → canonical: http://phrack.org/archives/issues/49/14.txt
                    → local:     /sources/smashing-the-stack.txt

[red-team]          Solar Designer — Getting around non-executable stack (Bugtraq, 1997)
                    // ret2libc; the first move in the offense/defense arms race
                    → canonical: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1997/Aug/63
                    → local:     /sources/solar-designer-non-exec-stack.txt

[red-team]          Nergal — The advanced return-into-lib(c) exploits (Phrack 58, 2001)
                    // chaining gadgets before ROP had a name
                    → canonical: http://phrack.org/archives/issues/58/4.txt
                    → local:     /sources/nergal-ret-into-libc.txt

[red-team]          MaXX — Vudo: An object-superstitiously paranoid view of malloc (Phrack 57, 2001)
                    // heap unlink primitives; the canonical glibc-internals tour
                    → canonical: http://phrack.org/archives/issues/57/8.txt
                    → local:     /sources/vudo-malloc.txt

[red-team]          jp — Advanced Doug Lea's malloc exploits (Phrack 61, 2003)
                    // the heap-fu the modern allocators were designed to forbid
                    → canonical: http://phrack.org/archives/issues/61/6.txt
                    → local:     /sources/jp-dlmalloc.txt

[red-team]          Skape & Skywing — Bypassing PatchGuard on Windows x64 (Uninformed v.3, 2005)
                    // kernel-level cat-and-mouse, written by the cats
                    → canonical: http://uninformed.org/?v=3&a=3

[red-team]          Rutkowska, J. — Introducing Blue Pill (Black Hat 2006)
                    // hardware-virt rootkits; the paper that made hypervisors a threat surface
                    → canonical: https://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/bh06/

[red-team]          Ormandy, T. — Sophail / Making Software Dumber (Project Zero, 2011-2017)
                    // how a single careful reader breaks "enterprise security" products
                    → canonical: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/about-project-zero.html

[red-team]          Halvar Flake (Dullien, T.) — Graph-based comparison of executable objects (SSTIC, 2004)
                    // the BinDiff method; reverse engineering as structural diffing
                    → canonical: https://www.sstic.org/2005/presentation/Graph-based_comparison_of_Executable_Objects/

[red-team]          Mitnick, K. & Simon, W. — The Art of Deception (2002)
                    // social engineering, told by the practitioner; pretexting as craft
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Deception-Controlling-Element-Security/dp/076454280X)

[blue-team]         White, A. & Clark, B. — BTFM: Blue Team Field Manual (2017)
                    // defender's spiral-bound counterpart to RTFM; same laconic register
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Team-Field-Manual-BTFM/dp/154101636X)

[blue-team]         Bejtlich, R. — The Tao of Network Security Monitoring (2004)
                    // NSM as discipline; full-content capture as the only ground truth
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Tao-Network-Security-Monitoring-Intrusion/dp/0321246772)

[blue-team]         Cheswick, Bellovin, Rubin — Firewalls and Internet Security (1994/2003)
                    // the canonical text; "the Internet is hostile" as engineering premise
                    → canonical: https://www.wilyhacker.com/

[blue-team]         Ranum, M. — The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (essay, 2005)
                    // why default-permit, "educate users," and patching-as-strategy all lose
                    → canonical: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/
                    → local:     /sources/ranum-six-dumbest.html

[blue-team]         Geer, D. — Cybersecurity as Realpolitik (Black Hat keynote, 2014)
                    // the ten policy proposals; security as a problem of incentives
                    → canonical: http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
                    → local:     /sources/geer-realpolitik.txt

[blue-team]         Schneier, B. — Applied Cryptography, 2nd ed. (1996)
                    // the field's first usable handbook; flawed and indispensable
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.schneier.com/books/applied-cryptography/)

[blue-team]         Anderson, R. — Security Engineering, 2nd ed. (2008)
                    // the only book that takes ATMs, nukes, and DRM as one subject
                    → canonical: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

[blue-team]         Provos, N. & Holz, T. — Virtual Honeypots (2007)
                    // deception as defense; the Honeynet Project's institutional memory
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Honeypots-Botnet-Tracking-Intrusion/dp/0321336321)

[blue-team]         Limoncelli, T., Hogan, C., Chalup, S. — The Practice of System and Network Administration (2007)
                    // the operational discipline that "DevOps" later forgot it borrowed from
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.everythingsysadmin.com/books.html)

[blue-team]         Kingsbury, K. (aphyr) — Jepsen analyses, call-me-maybe series (2013-)
                    // every distributed database is broken; here is exactly how
                    → canonical: https://jepsen.io/analyses

[network-craft]     Stevens, W. R. — TCP/IP Illustrated, vol. 1 (1994)
                    // the protocol stack as observed on the wire, packet by packet
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Volume-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321336313)

[network-craft]     Stevens, W. R. — Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (1992)
                    // the syscall semantics nobody bothers to re-document
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment-3rd/dp/0321637739)

[network-craft]     Postel, J. — RFC 793 (TCP, 1981) and RFC 791 (IP, 1981)
                    // the foundation; "be conservative in what you send" lives here
                    → canonical: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc791.txt
                    → local:     /sources/rfc791.txt
                    → canonical: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793.txt
                    → local:     /sources/rfc793.txt

[network-craft]     Oikarinen, J. & Reed, D. — RFC 1459 (IRC, 1993)
                    // the protocol that taught a generation how distributed text works
                    → canonical: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1459.txt
                    → local:     /sources/rfc1459.txt

[network-craft]     Mockapetris, P. — RFC 1034 / 1035 (DNS, 1987)
                    // why the Internet's namespace is shaped the way it is
                    → canonical: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt
                    → local:     /sources/rfc1034.txt
                    → canonical: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
                    → local:     /sources/rfc1035.txt

[crypto]            Diffie, W. & Hellman, M. — New Directions in Cryptography (IEEE, 1976)
                    // public key, announced; everything modern follows from this paper
                    → canonical: https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/diffie-hellman.pdf

[crypto]            Rivest, Shamir, Adleman — A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures (CACM, 1978)
                    // RSA in its original form, before the optimizations obscured it
                    → canonical: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rsapaper.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/rsa.pdf

[crypto]            Dwork, C. & Naor, M. — Pricing via Processing, or Combatting Junk Mail (CRYPTO, 1992)
                    // proof-of-work, twenty years before anyone called it that
                    → canonical: https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/pvp.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/dwork-naor-pricing.pdf

[crypto]            Back, A. — Hashcash: A Denial of Service Counter-Measure (2002)
                    // the specific construction Bitcoin lifted whole
                    → canonical: http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/hashcash.pdf

[crypto]            Nakamoto, S. — Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008)
                    // nine pages; the synthesis nobody saw coming
                    → canonical: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/bitcoin.pdf

[crypto]            Poon, J. & Dryja, T. — The Bitcoin Lightning Network (draft, 2016)
                    // payment channels as a settlement-layer abstraction
                    → canonical: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
                    → local:     /sources/lightning.pdf

[economics]         McKenzie, P. (patio11) — Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names / Prices / Time (2010-)
                    // the genre of "things obvious to operators, invisible to engineers"
                    → canonical: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
                    → local:     /sources/falsehoods-names.html

[economics]         McKenzie, P. (patio11) — Bits about Money (2020-2024)
                    // how payments, AML, and correspondent banking actually work
                    → canonical: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/

[economics]         Coase, R. — The Nature of the Firm (Economica, 1937)
                    // why companies exist at all; transaction costs as the answer
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.x)

[economics]         Akerlof, G. — The Market for Lemons (QJE, 1970)
                    // information asymmetry as the engine of every market failure worth knowing
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1879431)

[hacker-history]    The Jargon File, v4.4.7 (Raymond, E. ed., 2003) — plain .txt
                    // the dialect; the in-jokes; the institutional memory of a subculture
                    → canonical: http://www.catb.org/jargon/

[hacker-history]    Raymond, E. — The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)
                    // the essay that named what open source had been doing for twenty years
                    → canonical: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
                    → local:     /sources/cathedral-bazaar.html

[hacker-history]    Levy, S. — Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984)
                    // MIT, Homebrew, Sierra; the founding myth, told while witnesses lived
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Levy/dp/1449388396)

[hacker-history]    Stoll, C. — The Cuckoo's Egg (1989)
                    // the first published incident response; 75 cents to the KGB
                    → canonical: (no open mirror found; in-print: https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/1416507787)

[hacker-history]    Sterling, B. — The Hacker Crackdown (1992)
                    // Operation Sundevil and the EFF; civil liberties as a security topic
                    → canonical: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101

# wc -l: 64 entries · ~50 anchors plus tails
# notes propagated to chapter index 05/audit-cache via raft log entries 14318-14381
# this corpus predates the recursion. that is the value.