Security Technologies
Thomas A. Brooks, Michael M. Kaplan · AT&T Technical Journal · 1994
The growing popularity of such products as wireless telephones, laptop computers, and local area networks has an attendant drawback — the increased threat to privacy and secure communications. End customers are just beginning to become aware of these problems, and are demanding improved security. Encryption technology has evolved to the point at which it is both technically and economically feasible to be employed in public communications products and systems. AT&T, whose work in encryption can be traced back to the turn of the century, is at the forefront in developing products and services that provide encoding capabilities. This issue reviews just a small portion of that work.