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Date: 2001-08-26
John Young: Babbage, RAND & Security-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Zu_früh_auf_der_Bildfläche_Erschienen_Sein und vergessene Propheten des frühen IT Zeitalter, genannt Sixties. Wie immer, wenn der wort/kärgste Dokumentarist das Wort ergreift, der je über diesen Planeten wandelte, ist auf wenigen Absätzen mehr Content als sonstwo in fetten Datenbanken vorhanden ist. post/scrypt: Wer hat da schon wieder "Sie wollen uns zu Kakerlaken machen" laut hinausgesagt? -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- It is indeed wondrous to watch a new profession flower from the muck. Who would have thought 20 years ago that there would be a need for computer security consultants on the open market. Willis Ware of RAND called attention a while ago to a paper he wrote in the early 1960s for a small number of people who were just beginning to worry about computer security, then limited to government, in particular the military, and the first task faced was how to define the problem, presuming there was one. He wrote a paper on that which was not widely known, though seminal. Discussing this with Willis I learned about the computer history archives at the Charles Babbage Institute somewhere in the Mid- West USA, and was able to retrieve Willis's aboriginal paper on the range of issues compsec entailed -- which as far as I know has not been surppassed, now some 40 years later. And I wonder if his scary prescriptions are covered by the upstart accrediting bodies and agencies. A few months later my beloved and I were wandering the streets of London and ran across a house bearing a tablet which claimed Charles Babbage once lived there. I near wept upon gazing upon that domicile of Mr. Babbage and remembering how long he labored without recognition, much less well-paid commercial licensing, for an alchemy nobody knew how to even acknowledge existed, or if it did must be highly classified post haste to prevent the public from learning about it. Is there a Babbage archive in the UK? Slowly, as if pulling molars, we are eliciting from the National Security Agency what it knows about Non-Secret Encryption before or consurrent with Diffie-Hellman. The agency has written in the past week that the material on the topic it holds is voluminous and, unless I wanted to wait until 2006, could I narrow my initial request for all such information. Yes, I faxed, please release to me the earliest information you have about NSE, and would you be so kind as to also release a timeline of when the technology was discovered, or invented, assessments made and policy of deployment throughout its history. The simple point is, as ever with compsec, what you do not know can be well beyond wondrous, even fatal,though more probably ridiculously humiliating. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2001-08-26 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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