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Re: M$ CryptoAPI Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Sun Mar 17 18:46:58 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 96 18:27:51 EST
In-Reply-To: <314bb878.2839245@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>
bglassle@kaiwan.com (Bob Glassley) writes:
> With the current releases of the NT 4.0 betas, I would assume some of
> you have had the chance to look at the API more closely. I am getting
> ready to hack my first crypto enabled app and wondered if this was
> worth using or if Crypto C++ is the way to go.
>
> I would think that if their implementation is solid, and some of the
> *real* crypto gods write stronger CSP's than the M$ RSA Base CSP, this
> would be a good approach to get more enabled apps accepted for regular
> usage.
I wonder if it's worth it to crack their approval mechanism so we can
add our own crypto subsystems without asking Microsoft's approval.
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