I got on this list of automatic books several years ago and now have about a dozen or more different publications, in different colors, from blue to green to the famous orange. All from the National Computer Security Center.
Nothing juicy, and not much fun (for me) to read. Unix gurus trying to get better security classifications for their machines and systems have to read this stuff, though.
I had to wade through all that government stuff a while back. I've got the complete series, but haven't gotten any updates. :( It's all pretty dry and stuffy, but it did have some useful stuff, like the password guidelines and how they figure out which machines can be trusted and which can't.
Savage Road is the actual address of the Agency; Fort Meade per se is huge. NCSC as created in 1984 as part of NSDD-145 (National Security Decision Directive-145, a very important one). Prior to that date it had been called the DoD Computer Security Center, located smack dab in the center of SIGINT City.
Why is Directive 145 important? <curious>
I'd long been meaning to ask Dan about this. General Odom once was introduced at a speech he was giving to Jim Bamford. Odom recoiled and said "Sir, I consider you to be an unindicted felon."
<snicker> I got a good laugh out of that one!! :) :) -- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 510/659-9560 anon-0001@khijol.uucp If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel! -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"