IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB760734420

Edge Cryptography and the Codevelopment of Computer Networks and Cybersecurity (2016)

DuPont, Quinn (Author)
Fidler, Bradley Reuben (Author)

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Volume: 38
Issue: No. 4
Pages: 55-73

DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2016.49

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Internet ARPANet Computer networks Computer security; cyber security Cryptography History of Computing 20th century United States

Developed around 1973 by BBN under contract from DARPA, the private line interface (PLI), a cryptographic cybersecurity device used on the Arpanet, operated with minimal modification of the existing network infrastructure, sitting at the "edge" of the network between the network switches and the connected host computers. As a result of the developmental and infrastructural trajectory set in motion by the PLI, significant cryptographic resources remain at the edges (or ends) of the networks that constitute the Internet today. This study of the PLI is an entry into the historical relationship between cryptography and packet-switched computer networks.

...More

Included in

Article Yost, Jeffrey R. (2016) Computer Security, Part 2 -- Editor's Introduction. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (pp. 10-11). unapi

Citation URI

http://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB760734420/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Day, John; (2016)
The Clamor Outside as INWG Debated: Economic War Comes to Networking (/isis/citation/CBB243873737/)

Article Fidler, Bradley; Currie, Morgan; (2016)
Infrastructure, Representation, and Historiography in BBN's Arpanet Maps (/isis/citation/CBB826738719/)

Article Bradley Fidler; Andrew L. Russell; (October 2018)
Financial and Administrative Infrastructure for the Early Internet Network Maintenance at the Defense Information Systems Agency (/isis/citation/CBB161620234/)

Book David D. Clark; Sandra Braman; (2018)
Designing an Internet (/isis/citation/CBB601148284/)

Article Yost, Jeffrey R.; (2016)
Computer Security, Part 2 -- Editor's Introduction (/isis/citation/CBB453922047/)

Article Misa, Thomas J.; (2016)
Computer Security Discourse at RAND, SDC, and NSA (1958-1970) (/isis/citation/CBB851516279/)

Article Aspray, William F.; Cortada, James W.; (2016)
Before It Was a Giant: The Early History of Symantec, 1982-1999 (/isis/citation/CBB189385729/)

Article Yost, Jeffrey R.; (2016)
The March of IDES: Early History of Intrusion-Detection Expert Systems (/isis/citation/CBB570334134/)

Book Salus, Peter H.; (2008)
The ARPAnet source book: The unpublished foundations of the internet (/isis/citation/CBB001180083/)

Article Spicer, Dag; (July-September 2016)
Interview: Raymond Tomlinson: Email Pioneer, Part 2 (/isis/citation/CBB113069755/)

Article Brand, Stewart; (2001)
Founding father (/isis/citation/CBB001180052/)

Article Lukasik, Stephen J.; (2011)
Why the Arpanet Was Built (/isis/citation/CBB001231710/)

Article Abbate, Janet; (2010)
Privatizing the Internet: Competing Visions and Chaotic Events, 1987--1995 (/isis/citation/CBB001231740/)

Book Johnston, Jessica R.; (2009)
Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the Computer Antivirus Industry (/isis/citation/CBB001230682/)

Article Ensmenger, Nathan; (2017)
From the Editor's Desk (/isis/citation/CBB143265022/)

Book Benjamin Peters; (2016)
How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (/isis/citation/CBB113949248/)

Article Russell, Andrew Lawrence; James L. Pelkey; Loring Robbins; (Spring 2022)
The Business of Internetworking: Standards, Start-Ups, and Network Effects (/isis/citation/CBB136746708/)

Chapter Yost, Jeffrey R.; (2005)
Computers and the internet: Braiding irony, paradox, and possibility (/isis/citation/CBB001180691/)

Book Aspray, William F.; Ceruzzi, Paul E.; (2008)
The Internet and American business (/isis/citation/CBB001180684/)

Thesis Joy Marie Lisi Rankin; (2015)
Personal Computing Before Personal Computers: The Origins of America's Digital Culture (/isis/citation/CBB900832288/)