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Re: Historical PKI resources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com)
Mon Jan 8 14:50:22 2001
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To: "Matt Wyatt" <MWyatt@stv.org>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: "Matt Wyatt" <MWyatt@stv.org> 's message of
Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:06:38 -0600
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From: Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com
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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:10:36 -0800
MWyatt@stv.org said:
> I have found significant information about PKI as it exists today,
> but am looking for some background information. I'm looking for
> information about the history of PKI, how and where it started, how it
> developed, etc.
good question. I don't have an answer offhand but know one place to start
searching.
Here's the BibTeX entry for the paper that apparently "started it all"..
@misc{ diffie76new,
author = "W. Diffie and M. Hellman",
title = "New Directions in Cryptography",
text = "W. Diffie and M. E. Hellman,
New Directions in Cryptography, IEEE Trans.
Info. Theory IT-22, Nov. 1976, pp. 644-654",
year = "1976"
}
If I was doing the brute-force approach, I'd use http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/
(aka www.researchindex.com) to chase down other papers referencing this one
from the late 1970's and early-to-mid 1980's.
Alternatively, other's on this list may know of other available resources
where someone's already done this work.
regards,
JeffH
