On 29/04/2014 19:02 pm, Greg wrote: > I'm looking for a date that I could point to and call the "birth of > modern HTTPS/PKI". > > There is the Loren M Kohnfelder thesis from May of 1978, but that's not > quite it because it wasn't actually available to anyone at the time. > > Perhaps an event along the lines of "first modern HTTPS implementation > in a public web browser was released", or something like that. > > Any leads? Maybe something from Netscape's history?
Yes, 1994, when Netscape invented SSL v1. Which had no MITM support, which was then considered to be a life and death issue by RSADSI ... which just happened to have invested big in a think called x.509. And the rest is history. Some commentary here, which is opinion not evidence. http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000609.html iang _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
