[ih] Eyes on the Internet?

[Vint Cerf]

Craig is right - the R group had the link and worked closely with me on
packet cryptography as did BBN.

vint


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com>
wrote:

>
> 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
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