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RE: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salz, Rich)
Fri Sep 3 11:01:22 1999
From: "Salz, Rich" <SalzR@CertCo.com>
To: "'Lucky Green'" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>,
"cypherpunks@Algebra. COM" <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
Cc: "Cryptography@C2. Net" <cryptography@c2.net>, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:42:29 -0400
>For more information and a program to remove the NSA's key from your copy
of
>Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, see
>http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa.html
Perhaps more interestingly, the program lets you replace the key, too.
It requires no special privileges -- just uses some undocumented API's.
It would be ...interesting... for someone to combine that program with
Melissa, where the body of the messages was a public/private keypair.
/r$
