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Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Jul 16 15:49:09 2013

To: "<<\"tei''>>>" <oscar.vives@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:17:46 +0200."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:47:58 -0400
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:17:46 +0200, "<<\"tei''>>>" said:
> It would be fun to make a encryptation keyboard.  A keyboard that add
> the text you write to a buffer, and wen the buffer is full, output it
> to the computer encrypted. Maybe with pgp.  Such machine would
> probably need a led with the text you are writing.
>
> That way, you coud be using Google Docs or Office 365. And the
> computer OS can have a keylogger and a backdoor.  And you will still
> be somewhat safe if pgp provide you with strong enough level of
> encryptation.

Congrats. You just re-invented the TPM chip.

(And how do you actually guarante that your keyboard doesn't have a keylogger
or a backdoor? Such things *have* been installed inside keyboards before...)

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