[107389] in Cypherpunks
Re: NT 4.0 flunks cryptography test (/.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Wed Jan 13 09:04:48 1999
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:52:12 -0500
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <199901130220.DAA01570@replay.com>
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
In <199901130220.DAA01570@replay.com>, on 01/13/99
at 03:20 AM, Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> said:
>http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0111ntcrypt.html
>By Ellen Messmer
>Network World, 01/11/99
>Washington, D.C.
>Last summer, Microsoft hoped to see NT 4.0 breeze
>through government tests of encryption features such as
>Data Encryption Standard and digital signatures. But
>things didn't go exactly as planned.
>Products must pass the Federal Information Processing
>Standard (FIPS) 140-1 certification test before they
>can be sold to the U.S. and Canadian governments.
>Not only did the Redmond, Wash., giant fail the
>cryptography tests, but Microsoft officials now
>acknowledge that the lab scrutiny exposed shortcomings
>in NT's cryptographic processing that will force
>Microsoft to redesign the operating system.
><snip>
>http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0111ntcrypt.html
>cypherpunks/cypherpunks
Does this come as a surprise to anyone??
M$ does not have the talent nor the corporate mentality to design,
develope, and produce anything remotely resembling a "secure" product.
They really need to stick to making overpriced gameboys and let the
professionals do the crypto.
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