Early Work on Security
[[Shannon-1949] .]
C.E. Shannon
“Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems”,
Bell System Technical Journal, vol.28, #4, 1949, pp. 656–715
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Keywords: Security.
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Notes: First mathematical modeling of cryptology
[Baran-1964 .]
P. Baran
“On Distributed Communications: IX. Security, Secrecy, and Tamper-Free Considerations”,
RAND Memorandum, August 1964
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Keywords: Security.
Abstract: “One in a series of eleven Memoranda detailing the Distributed Adaptive Message Block Network, a proposed digital data communications system based on a distributed network concept. It considers the security aspects of such a system, in which secrecy is of great importance. Present security concepts are based on an implied assumption that any "cleared" person must be trusted and that any "uncleared" person is a potential spy. Further, information is either classified or not. From time to time one wonders if these binary attitudes are really a valid basis on which to predicate a military communications systems. This Memorandum, in which the underlying concepts and resulting safeguards to be built into the network are described, is written on the basis of fully anticipating the existance of spies within our ostensibly secure communications secrecy protection structure; hence, our primary interest is in raising the price of espied information to an excessive level. ”
Notes: First publication about network security
[[Doyle-2001] (doi) .]
R. Doyle
“The US Navy's first online crypto system”,
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol.23, #1, Jan-March 2001, pp. 17–21
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Keywords: History.
Abstract: “Describes how, in 1950, four officers and four enlisted men were ordered to a school at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, USA, where they were to learn about a system that would automatically and instantaneously encrypt and decrypt facsimile transmissions over long-distance high-frequency radio paths. Initially, the project was called Facsimile Applique´ Equipment, but later it was known as the AFSAX 500 Program”
Notes: importance and relevance to ResiliNets
