Karl Auerbach on Nostr: There is a bit of a gloss to be added to your note ... There *were* projects in the ...

There is a bit of a gloss to be added to your note ...

There *were* projects in the 1970's to deal with network identification, authentication, access control, and encryption (including key management).

I know - I worked on some of those projects.

But we were under a heavy hand of rather paranoid security restrictions - we could not talk about what we were doing. So pretty much everything we did was hidden and eventually had to be re-invented. Almost none of our documents have made it into present-day digital collections. In other words our security weakness of today is a self-inflicted wound born from excessive security/paranoia of the 1970s.

I hate to use grokpedia but it does have a vastly better description of my project than does wikipedia...

https://grokipedia.com/page/blacker_security