Conference Proceedings Section:
I'm not out to collect a bunch of conference proceedings. But as I acquire them, and if they're available for purchase online (i.e. have an ISBN), I'll briefly mention them here. Though I have done so everywhere else, I'm not necessarily going to figure out prerequisite mathematics, books, and computer languages across any or all of the presentations in a given conference proceedings publication.
(If it’s here, I have it. If it’s reviewed, I have, at a minimum, read all of the crypto-relevant parts.)


11th USENIX Security Symposium
Boneh, Dan (Program Chair). 2002 (Currently out of print). 353 pages.
Categories: Conference Proceedings, Newly Added Books
Noteworthy presentations involving noteworthy people include:
* Lessons Learned in Implementing and Deploying Crypto Software -- Peter Gutmann
* Making Mix Nets Robust for Electronic Voting by Randomized Partial Checking -- Ronald L. Rivest


Computer Security: A Global Challenge
Finch, James H. (Editor) / Dougall, E. Grahm (Editor). 1984 (Currently out of print). 580 pages.
Categories: Conference Proceedings
This book and its review here are a waste of your reading time. That being said, I really enjoyed reading what was important to computer security practitioners back in 1984. The predictions of the presenters mostly fall into two categories: 1) Those that never came true (i.e. the wonders of Bell-LaPadula) and 2) those that have still not come true (widely deployed RSA-enabled smart cards for personal banking are just around the corner)
Equally entertaining is
* Martin Hellman’s (of Diffie-Hellman fame) presentation against nuclear war (it promised to show its implications to computer security and encryption, but never quite did)
* Fred Cohan’s views on viruses
* That a 10^4 keyspace can be exhausted in as little as an hour and 23 minutes.
* That every presenter had their own weird proprietary taxonomy for how their corner of the security world should be organized.


Eighth USENIX Security Symposium (Security ’99)
Treese, Win (Program Chair). 1999. 238 pages.
Categories: Conference Proceedings, Newly Added Books
Noteworthy presentations involving noteworthy people include:
* The Design of a Cryptographic Security Architecture -- Peter Gutmann


Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Atluri, Vijay (Editor). 2002. 275 pages.
Categories: Conference Proceedings, Newly Added Books
Noteworthy presentations involving noteworthy people include:
* Authenticated-Encryption with Associated-Data -- Phillip Rogaway
* Tarzan: A Peer-to-Peer Anonymizing Network Layer -- Robert Morris (of the 1988 "Morris Worm" fame)
* Almost Entirely Correct Mixing with Applications to Voting -- Dan Boneh

The books I haven't finished reading yet...


Information Assurance in Computer Networks: Methods, Models, and Architectures for Network Security: International Workshop MM-ACNS 2002 St. Petersburg, Russia May 21-23, 2001
Gorodetski, Vladimir I. (Editor) / Skormin, Victor A. (Editor) / Popyack, Leonard J. (Editor). 2001. 311 pages.
Categories: Conference Proceedings
Haven't finished reading this book yet.



Information Hiding: 2nd Workshop, IH'98 Portland, Oregon, USA, April 1998 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1525)
Aucsmith, David (Editor). 1998. 368 pages.
Categories: Conference Proceedings, Steganography
Haven't finished reading this book yet.



Information Hiding: 3rd International Workshop, Ih'99 Dresden, Germany, September 29-October 1, 1999 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 17)
Pfitzmann, Andreas (Editor). 2000. 489 pages.
Categories: Conference Proceedings, Steganography
Haven't finished reading this book yet.



Information Hiding: 4th International Workshop, IH 2001 Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 2001 Proceedings (LNCS 2137)
Moskowitz, Ira S. (Editor). 2001. 412 pages.
Categories: Conference Proceedings, Steganography
Haven't finished reading this book yet.