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that's not quite right. Bellovin et al in the late 80s early 90s really made a big push for authentication infrastructure (SPKI). but at the time PKI was being

that's not quite right. Bellovin et al in the late 80s early 90s really made a big push for authentication infrastructure (SPKI). but at the time PKI was being held hostage by ITAR (I remember sending off to get permission to use the RSA library, and getting something back several months later. so yes, many of the people working on these things didn't have a security mindset (I had unix accounts at all kinds of random places), but some did...and the US DoD really threw cold water on the whole business

Karrot_Kream 5y ago
Interesting, thanks, I didn't know about this. I'll do some reading into SPKI. Do you know if these discussions are written down/chronicled somewhere?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  He’s talking about late 80s , early 90s. Go back a few more years. Definitely before HTTP. FTP authentication was optional and I think sent in plain text or some really simple encryption (this is before SFTP). Telnet was used everywhere… plain text. And finger… really?

that's not quite right. Bellovin et al in the late 80s early 90s really made a big push for authentication infrastructure (SPKI). but at the time PKI was being

that's not quite right. Bellovin et al in the late 80s early 90s really made a big push for authentication infrastructure (SPKI). but at the time PKI was being

that's not quite right. Bellovin et al in the late 80s early 90s really made a big push for authentication infrastructure (SPKI). but at the time PKI was being

that's not quite right. Bellovin et al in the late 80s early 90s really made a big push for authentication infrastructure (SPKI). but at the time PKI was being