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Web sites Referenced in the Text

All of the following links can be found on a page of the companion Web site for this book at www.securingjava.com.


Chapter 1
Don't Push Me: The Security Implications of Push. developer.com TechFocus article by Gary McGraw.

Java Developer's Kit (JDK) available free from Javasoft. Also other official Java information.

Javasoft's Frequently Asked Questions: Applet Security

Security Tradeoffs: Java versus ActiveX. Princeton Safe Internet Programming FAQ. Also see Appendix A.

JavaScript Problems I've Discovered. John LoVerso's JavaScript Security site.

developer.com, an on-line publication for Java developers.

JavaWorld, an on-line publication for Java enthusiasts and developers.

MindQ, an on-line training company specializing in Java.

Yahoo! An excellent starting point for Web surfing. A large Web index.

AltaVista. One of the top search engines on the Web.

Java Security Hotlist. Also see Appendix B.

Princeton's Secure Internet Programming Team. Includes the Java Security FAQ.

The Java Books list. An extensive list of all books published about Java (way too many).

The Java Security Web Site. This book's companion Web site. Includes the Java Security Hotlist.


Chapter 2
The Hostile Applets Home Page, a collection of hostile applets written by Mark LaDue.


Chapter 3
Understanding Java Stack Inspection by Wallach and Felten.

Sun's document explaining the security API change.


Chapter 4
The Hostile Applets Home Page

DigiCrime (disable Java and JavaScript before you surf this site)

The Java Security Hotlist: Hostile Applets and Other Toys

Digicrime's Blue Screen of Death page.

The actual byte code of the bluescreen applet.

Ahpah Software makes the SourceAgain decompiler.

Earthweb's Java applet database. Sun Microsystem's Frequently Asked Questions - Java Security

Princeton's Java Security: Frequently Asked Questions (included as Appendix A)

Princeton's Security Tradeoffs: Java vs. ActiveX (included as Appendix A)

The Java Security Web Site, companion Web site for this book


Chapter 5
An archive of the security-related bugtraq archive

Javasoft's Frequently Asked Questions: Java Security

Princeton Secure Internet Programming Team's Java Security FAQ. Also see Appendix A.

Major Malfunction and Ben Laurie explain the security holes they discovered

Princeton's Secure Internet Programming Team

University of Washington's Kimera Project

Type safety problems discovered in Sun's Verifier by the Kimera Project

Ben Mesander's applet WhereDoYouWantToGoToday


Chapter 6
Princeton's seminal paper, Java Security: From HotJava to Netscape and Beyond

Formalizing the JVM at Computational Logic, Inc.

Javasoft's Security Reference Model for JDK 1.0.2

The Jasmin byte code assembler

Ahpah Software sells the SourceAgain Java Decompiler

Finjan Software, Ltd.

Mark LaDue takes on Finjan

Mark LaDue takes on Finjan again

Digitivity

Security7

WithinReach

Cult of the Dead Cow produces the Back Orifice exploit

esafe

Princeton Secure Internet Programming Team's Java Filter Class Loader

International Computer Security Association

Marcus Ranum discusses firewall certification

Mark LaDue's Hostile Applet Mutation Generator


Chapter 7
The Java Security Web Site, companion site for this book

The Java Security Hotlist

Sun's Java Security FAQ

Martin et al.'s paper Blocking Java Applets at the Firewall


Chapter 8
Gemplus: JavaCard and GemXpresso

Schlumberger: Cyberflex

Javasoft: Java Card Technology, specifications for Card Java can be found here

Boneh, DeMillo, and Lipton's On the Importance of Checking Cryptographic Protocols for Faults

Anderson and Kuhn's Tamper Resistance-A Cautionary Note

Crptography Research, Inc. information on Differential Power Analysis


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