NIST Bulletins and publications

Fri Jul 27 12:39:04 UTC 2007

I read a lot of mailing lists. Some of them are actually just 
collections of others, which mercifully allows me to reduce the traffic 
oh, so slightly. On one of them, InfoSec News, I see bulletins coming in 
from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), and they're 
always comprised of reasonable, yet wordy, documents. This month is 
especially interesting. "ITL Bulletin for July 2007: Border Gateway 
Protocol Security (all caps removed to protect the innocent)."

I wonder how many here actually read these things, or find them useful. 
I read the announcement, and have glanced briefly at the PDF it points 
to, and find it generally useful. Nice guidelines, sensible stuff all, 
and probably of great help if this is all new to you (perhaps helpful 
even if you've been around a while). For those overwhelmed with too much 
work and too little time, there's even an Executive Summary with actual 
useful information in it.

http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/0707/13525.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-54/SP800-54.pdf

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it,
and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous
resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their
ignorance the hard way.         --Bokonen