For Oppenheimer weekend, I broke out a couple of mementos from the two summers that I worked at Los Alamos in a support role for their high performance computing group. (ASCI Blue Mountain was just coming online around that time.)

These are two-factor authentication devices that were required to log in anywhere and are very similar to today's time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) that are in growing use today.

#LANL #LosAlamos #Security #Authentication #TOTP #BlueMountain

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Blue Mountain:
🎵 Blue Canoe

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