diff --git a/literature/literature.bib b/literature/literature.bib
index 9b88a64773cc5dcb610236e15f3134bd4c7ee5ca..db5e84768ac5f815f57d0eb6b4e108bc4e9ac20b 100644
--- a/literature/literature.bib
+++ b/literature/literature.bib
@@ -1,35 +1,3 @@
-@string{ieee-oakland = "IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy"}
-@string{acm-ccs = "ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)"}
-@string{isoc-ndss = "Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS)
-                     "}
-@string{raid = "Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID)"}
-@string{esorics = "European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)
-                   "}
-@string{acsac = "Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)"}
-@string{usenix-security = "USENIX Security Symposium"}
-@string{usenix-nsdi = "USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and
-                       Implementation (NSDI)"}
-@string{usenix-hotbots = "USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnet"}
-@string{usenix-leet = "USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent
-                       Threats (LEET)"}
-@string{usenix-woot = "USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT)"}
-@string{usenix-sruti = "USENIX Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on
-                        the Internet (SRUTI)"}
-@string{usenix-atc = "USENIX Annual Technical Conference"}
-@string{acm-popl = "ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)"}
-@string{ieee-infocom-mc = "IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)"}
-@string{ieee-dcs = "IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems"}
-@string{acm-imc = "ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement"}
-@string{dimva = "Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability
-                 Assessment (DIMVA)"}
-
-% article       {author, title, journal, year}[volume, number, pages, month, note]
-% inproceedings {author, title, booktitle, year}[editor, volume oder number, series, pages, address, month, organization, publisher, note]
-% manual        {title, address}[author, organization, edition, month, year, note]
-% misc          {}[author, title, howpublished, month, year, note]
-% techreport    {author, title, institution, year}[type, note, number, address, month]
-% As of now you can use the url and urldate on every type to ease the inclusion of urls
-
 @article{Xie:2008:SBS,
   author = {Y. Xie and F. Yu and K. Achan and R. Panigrahy and G. Hulten and I.
             Osipkov},
@@ -40,19 +8,3 @@
   year = {2008},
 }
 
-@inproceedings{Newsome:05:DTA,
-  author = {J. Newsome and D. Song},
-  title = {{Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and
-           SignatureGeneration of Exploits on Commodity Software}},
-  booktitle = isoc-ndss,
-  year = {2005},
-}
-
-@misc{msc:correctuse,
-  author = {{Rohde \& Schwarz}},
-  title = {{D}er korrekte {U}mgang mit {G}r\"{o}\ss{}en,\ {E}inheiten und {G}leichungen},
-  url = {
-         http://www.rohde-schwarz.de/ps/rus/tools/show_8437_document/Der_korrekte_Umgang.pdf
-         },
-  urldate = {\today},
-}