[ih] Eyes on the Internet?

[Belin, Daniel]

Van Atta's *DARPA Technical Accomplishments *actually makes mention of
this, and notes it as a factor in DCA's willingness to take over management
of ARPAnet. To quote:

"The mission of DCA was to provide communications for the military, and it
was, at first, reluctant to operate a research network such as ARPANET
which also involved non-military users, and which had, at the time, no
provisions for security. However, within DCA no one in authority voiced
major objections to taking over responsibility for ARPANET. There were,
also, several other factors affecting DCA's actions regarding ARPANET:
[...] (2) ARPA, in order to be able to share classfied data over the
network, undertook to develop, with NSA, a "private line interface" (PLI)
device allowing end-to-end ARPANET encryption[.]"

(from Volume I, pages 20-8 and 20-9)

Cordially,

Dan

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:

> 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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