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> Into the 90s, I could telnet easily enough between corporate and university systems, no VPN needed (although a quick google reveals, no VPN invented either).
by zokier 6y ago
> Into the 90s, I could telnet easily enough between corporate and university systems, no VPN needed (although a quick google reveals, no VPN invented either).
Apparently IPsec, SSH, and SSL all appeared in 1995, as did SHA1 and 3DES, must have been quite a year for crypto. But those took time to catch on, especially as the systems were far more fragmented then than today. It took five years more to get rid of the silly export regulations finally on 2000. That should illustrate how new thing even relatively reliable widespread crypto is, before systems were far more trust based
- jachee 6y agoI did my junior (high-school) year English research paper on RSA and public key encryption that year (1995). I recall using a phrase along the lines of "This may lead to more trust of The Information Superhighway, and enable its use as a commercial trade center."
- zokier 6y agoCuriously RSA is the one thing that's ancient, coming from the 70's. I don't know if it was used much at all for anything before mid nineties though.
- jachee 6y agoYeah, they'd done the math bit, but there wasn't really any practical application until Phil Zimmermann built and distributed (rather cleverly in some cases) PGP.