[117451] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Fri Sep 3 11:22:54 1999
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Date: 3 Sep 1999 15:06:18 GMT
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Reply-To: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
* csvcjld@nomvs.lsumc.edu wrote:
>Can the NSA's private key be derived from the public key in Microsoft's
>code?
No. But "Can the NSA's private key be derived from Microsoft's code?" would
be a really cool question.
