[ih] Eyes on the Internet?

[Craig Partridge]

Hi Brian:

My guess, purely a guess, is this was in the NSA research group.  For a number
of years, NSA had an excellent data comms research group (may still) focused
on how to meet NSA's data comms requirements (think moving around all the
data it collected in a secure fashion -- *not* how to hack systems).  Some
of that research group had ARPANET/Internet access and participated in
Internet standards work in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Thanks!

Craig

Brian E Carpenter writes:
> I was just touching up my stock talk on the history of the
> Internet, and I noticed a node on the 1977 ARPANET map called
> "NSA" (a PDP-11) with links to SDAC and NBS.
> 
> Does anybody happen to know (and is allowed to write) what
> they did with it?
> 
> (afaik, the existence of the NSA was made public in ~1975.)
> 
> Regards
>    Brian Carpenter