Digital Signatures in the telegraph
Title: @coopersmithFaxedRiseFall2015 date: 2023-03-10 type: literature project:
tags:: #memex2 #telegraph #Cipher projects::
[!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight Given the opportunity to send exact reproductions of their messages, however, most users continued sending less-expensive regular telegrams with codes and ciphers providing security and authenticity
Its like a cipher baked into the morse code. To verify the sender of the message.
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its like a very early version of a digital signature, joseph's memex goes into this topic a little deeper so i suggest you check it out. Its pretty much to verify who sent the message by having a code that belongs to you, something that someone cannot easily recreate.
Citational Information¶
Coopersmith, J. 2015. Faxed: the rise and fall of the fax machine. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.