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The You are Now in France attack, still with us after all these years
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Sep 23 09:49:36 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:03:54 +1200
I was browsing through the Windows download centre for reasons not relevant
here and came across KB955417, dated 22 August 2008:
Install this update to resolve an issue in which protected storage (PStore)
uses a lower quality cryptographic function when the system locale is set to
French (France).
Peter.
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