[117473] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri Sep 3 20:07:51 1999
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:19:16 -0400
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, "Salz, Rich" <SalzR@CertCo.com>
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 1:32 PM -0700 on 9/3/99, John Gilmore wrote:
> It works
> better to patch out NSA's key with your own -- then you can load both
> your own crypto code and all the standard MS stuff.
ROTFL!
*That* is, um, rich!
Cheers,
RAH
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