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Re: Microsoft Windows has NSA Crypto Backdoor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (T Bruce Tober)
Sat Sep 4 10:43:47 1999
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 10:32:31 +0100
To: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@c2.net>,
European Crytpo <eucrypto@fitug.de>, ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
From: T Bruce Tober <octobersdad@reporters.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990903075622.5562D-100000@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov>
In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.990903075622.5562D-100000@techreports.jpl.nasa
.gov>, Jay D. Dyson <jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov> writes
>
>
>Hi folks,
>
> You may find this of interest. It is chilling, to say the least.
>(Of course, this is something I always suspected, but had yet to confirm.)
>
> http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa.html
There's an attempt to deny the thing today, as one would expect:
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/articles/04soft.html>
free registration required.
How reliable is Andrew Fernandes the guy who discovered this backdoor?
How likely is the thing to be real, or as M$ explains it, "a Microsoft
programmer's remarkably bad choice of language in a software system
designed to protect electronic communications and commerce?
Microsoft executives insisted that there was no Big Brother feature in
the software. "The big answer is that these charges are completely
false," said Scott Culp, a security product manager at Microsoft."
tbt
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