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A: Origins of the "man-in-the-middle" analysis

After a couple minutes in Google, I find that Leslie Lamport appears to be the first to talk about MitM analysis in terms of communication security. The work was published in 1981, but there is evidence of his thoughts on the matter as early as 1979. First published work describing the ideas: h...

Philip Kirkbride

I saw that update in live time @schroeder :-) Link to the paper added here and in a few other places kirkins.github.io/Cyber-Crime-Micro-Course/links.html

schroeder

Have a source to the Datamation journal? I can't find one. I have a suspicion that it is not what the OP says it is

Philip Kirkbride

No, not much use to me unless their is an online version. I ended up here because I'm looking for commons ways MiTM was used in the early days of the internet before HTTPS was popular. 1973 is probably to far back for me.

schroeder

Whoa ... I'm seeing academic articles that are quoting this answer (without reference).

Philip Kirkbride

Sorry, I will link it

schroeder

18:26

?? Not you. I'm finding many articles and papers written since 2015 that basically quote me.

Philip Kirkbride

Added to new section at bottom

They should give you credit where it is due.

I'm completely new to Academia trying to do my first research related to cyber crime. So I'm still getting used to things.

schroeder

I'm not worried about credit, I'm just shocked that my one answer (from a quick google search) has seeded the knowledge graph for the world on this question.

the words in it now show up in academic papers, articles, vendor blogs, etc.

That's almost disturbing.

Philip Kirkbride

What's crazier is that despite that the answer only had 1 upvote.

At least that was the case when I found it if I remember right

10 points of 90k

schroeder

lol

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