# Hacking Textfiles: The Color Books

Somehow I missed this series of files when I was on BBSes in the 1980's, but they seem legitimate enough, so now you have them too. These are the "Color Books", books about computer security guidelines purported to be written for the Department of Defense from the 1980's to the 1990's. They are assigned arbitrary colors, and each one goes into great detail about a specific aspect of computer security or, more likely computer security administration. I've seen these files make a lot of appearences in computer security textfile archives, so I assume the combination of Department of Defense conspiracy and seemingly in-depth (if boring) recounting of principles reach out to something in the archivist's gut. Judge for yourself.

Filename | Size | Description of the Textfile
aqua.txt | 67633 | The Aqua Book: A Glossary of Computer Security Acronyms
b_blue.txt | 52053 | The Blue Book: Procedures for Interacting with the NSA's Information Security Organization (March 1, 1988)
blue.txt | 60038 | The Blue Book: The Trusted Product Evaluation Questionnaire (1989)
brown.txt | 97701 | The Brown Book: The Guide to Understanding Trusted Facility Management
burgendy.txt | 66951 | The Burgundy Book: A Guide to Understanding Design Documentation
greenbook.txt | 60908 | The Green Book: The Department of Defense Password Management Guideline (April 12, 1985)
grey.txt | 141699 | The Grey Book: A Rationale for Selecting Access Control List Features for the UNIX System
lavender.txt | 55484 | The Lavender Book: A Guide to Understanding Trusted Distribution in Trusted Systems (December 15, 1988)
lightblue.txt | 53868 | The Light Blue Book: A Guide to Understanding Identification and Authentication in Trusted Systems (September 1991)
n_orange.txt | 86796 | The Orange Book: A Guide to Understanding Discretionary Access Control in Trusted Systems (September 30, 1987)
nsaorder.txt | 2676 | Order Form for Computer Security Products from the NSA
nsapubs.txt | 8268 | List of National Security Agency Computer Security Documents
orange.book | 325120 | Computer Security - 1983 Orange Book (August 15, 1983)
orange.txt | 247993 | The Orange Book: The Guide to Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (August 15, 1983)
orange2.txt | 141806 | The Orange Book II: A Guide to Understanding Configuration Management in Trusted Systems
peach.txt | 59080 | The Peach Book: A Guide to Writing the Security Features Users Guide for Trusted Systems (September 1991)
pink.txt | 143547 | The Pink Book: A Guide to Rating Maintenance Phase
purple.txt | 57408 | The Purple Book: Guidelines for Formal Verification Systems (April 1, 1991)
red.txt | 819493 | The Red Book: Evaluation of Trusted Network Systems and Components (July 31, 1987)
redii.txt | 119791 | The Red Book II: Trusted Network Interpretation Environments Guideline (August 1, 1990)
std001.txt | 277123 | DoD 5200.28-STD: Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (December 26, 1985)
tan.txt | 56311 | The Tan Book: A Guide to Understanding Audit in Trusted Systems
tg004.txt | 65376 | Glossary of Computer Security Acronyms
tg006.txt | 137992 | National Computer Security Center: A Guide to Understanding Configuration Management in Trusted Systems
veniceblue.txt | 61920 | The Venice Blue Book: Computer Security Subsystems (September 1988)
yellow.txt | 76867 | The Yellow Book: Guideance for Applying the Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria in SPecific Environm,ents (June 1985)
yellow_2.txt | 20194 | Guidance for Applying the Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria in Specific Environments (June 25, 1985)

There are 27 files for a total of 3,364,096 bytes.