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Tech HistoryHistory October 3, 2026 8 min read

Kerberos at Project Athena: Tickets for an Open Network

Project Athena's Kerberos replaced host-based trust with tickets from a trusted third party, shaping authentication across open networks.

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Tech HistoryHistory August 27, 2026 6 min read

How X grew from Project Athena and W, separated display servers from clients and window managers, and reached the durable X11 protocol in 1987.

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