[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 48, Issue 13

[Craig Partridge]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 9:05 AM Andrew Odlyzko via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
> All this material is amusing and informative, but it
> is rather far afield from the history of packet networks.
> Messages in those system were not broken up in packets
> that were then mixed with those of other messages, ...
>
>
>
Agreed, though not far from cyber security.  Pehrson and Holtzmann were
down the hall from me at SICS when they started writing their book
(Holtzmann on a sabbatical, like me).  And one detail we uncovered was that
the French telegraph system played a critical role in the plot of the Count
of Monte Cristo, in which the count arranges for a message to be altered or
inserted (I don't recall which) in transit, which causes the Baron
Danglars, a banker, to panic.  Classic man-in-the-middle attack :-)

Craig
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