On 1/6/22 5:05 PM, bzs@theworld.com wrote:
We never designed it to do things which require so much security. ...
The net was designed to share pictures of cats...
Our mileage is varying. There are diverse histories of the net - the history of the net does kinda resemble that fabled elephant and the blind men. I worked for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff back in the early 1970's and then for various three-letter US agencies in Maryland for much of the rest of that decade. We started with ARPAnet technology and moved forward. Our focus was operating system and network security (for which I designed and built the first verified B-level secure operating system.) Anyway... it was always our goal back then to bake security deeply into the net. And by the latter part of the 1970's we had invented a lot of stuff that had to be re-invented later, such as IPsec, key management, virtual networks, and lots and lots of software/hardware that used security tagging and capabilities. We actually implemented most of these things and got them working in production environments. (Why re-invented? Because we were doing stuff for agencies that were extremely paranoid about national security implications - remember during the 1970's the cold war was running very hot. So we could not publish anything about what we worked on.) --karl--