IDG Contributor Network: What door locks teach us about IoT cybersecurity

Would you be surprised to learn that the first mechanical lock and key were invented about the same time as the first message encoding keys? Mechanical security keys, for doors, gates, living spaces, etc. date back over six thousand years to the time of the Pharaohs. Not surprisingly Simon Singh’s great history of encryption technology, The Code Book, also traces encryption keys back as far as the hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt. But I would argue that only recently, with the advent of the