[117530] in Cypherpunks
Re: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sun Sep 5 03:08:17 1999
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Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 23:43:52 -0700
To: James Donald <jamesd@echeque.com>, Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 01:38 AM 9/4/99 -0700, James Donald wrote:
>Bill Gates has always been on the side of the angels when it came to
>crypto. He knew it would be hard to implement CAPI in ways that stopped
>people from installing unapproved crypto, and probably did not try very hard.
I think you're attributing to
niceness that which can adequately be explained by stupidity...
This _is_ the company that's been shipping appalling excuses for
crypto in their word processors for years.
Basically, they don't care, any more than they care about
systems crashing 5 times a day.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
