Edge Cryptography and the Codevelopment of Computer Networks and Cybersecurity

DuPont, Quinn; Fidler, Bradley

doi:10.1109/mahc.2016.49

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“…Nonetheless, security was discussed in early IETF meetings, in specific ways, as I explore below. Recent work by DuPont and Fidler (2016) documents the early history of cybersecurity technologies as network security. Our argument, some of which is reproduced here, links modern cybersecurity architecture to design decisions of the early 1970s on the Arpanet.…”

Section: Histories Of Network Cybersecurity and Internet Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second consequence of the defense ecosystem was a long-term path dependency in network security. By the mid-1970s, plans were underway to build Arpanet-like networks for agencies such as the National Security Agency, and to use the Arpanet to link classified users to other military networks (DuPont and Fidler, 2016;Elsam, 1980). As DARPA had already developed the network architecture, making secure variants of the Arpanet meant adding cryptographic resources to the ends, or edges, of the network.…”

Section: The Arpanet Research and Management Ecosystemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A classified packet security program, also run by Cerf at DARPA, funded the development of modular security technologies. They included a new version of the PLI, the internet PLI, modified to work over an internet (Cerf, 2016), as well as more advanced modular security technologies that did not require manual keying (DuPont and Fidler, 2016). The internet PLI provides a clear link between the security architecture of the Arpanet and that of the internet.…”

Section: The Civilian Internet and The Defense Data Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cybersecurity governance: a prehistory and its implications

Fidler

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the emerging challenges of cybersecurity governance by analyzing the internet’s early history. Design/methodology/approach Tracing the design and management of early internet and network security technologies in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s. Findings The US Department of Defense separated the research and management regimes for networks and network security, with the latter restricted to military networks. As such, the absence of cybersecurity technologies on the early internet was not an oversight, but a necessary compromise. This ordering of networks and security had enduring technological, political and even cultural consequences, which are breaking down today. Social implications Political, technological and metaphoric distinctions between networks and security should be challenged; cybersecurity will transform internet governance. Originality/value New historical sources and analysis provide a novel perspective on contemporary challenges of cybersecurity governance.

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Section: Histories Of Network Cybersecurity and Internet Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Arpanet Research and Management Ecosystemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Civilian Internet and The Defense Data Networkmentioning

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