[117528] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA key in Windows?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sun Sep 5 02:44:28 1999
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 02:29:27 -0400
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 11:22 PM 9/3/99 -0400, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>>Microsoft says the "backup key" has always been present in the Crypto
>>API; Microsoft says the third key in the Win2000 builds is a "test key"
>>which won't be present in shipping versions of Win2000.
>
>Sounds like the spin doctors are hard at work.
That _is_ what spin doctors do, after all - 95% idleness, 5% sheer terror :-)
"Got a pocket full of Krypto-Knight"....
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
