[67708] in Cypherpunks
Re: Microsoft CAPI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Loewenstern)
Wed Oct 9 16:34:40 1996
From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 15:13:54 -0500
To: m5@tivoli.com
Cc: Ravi Pandya <rpandya@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
Mike McNally writes:
> And so what happens when the Microsoft key is compromised?
> It might be hard to break by purely cryptographic means, but
> surely there are some people at Microsoft who aren't
> millionaires.
I ask: "Who Cares?" It is easy enough to distribute with the secure-non-GAK
plug-in a patch for disabling the module authentication. Heck, you could
even make an ActiveX applet that did it...
andrew
"Click Here to Download and Install Real Crypto"
