[117771] in Cypherpunks
Re: plausible CAPI recovery designs (Re: FW: Cryptonym...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri Sep 10 03:32:33 1999
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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 23:47:57 -0700
To: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>, ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 12:17 AM -0700 9/9/99, Adam Back wrote:
>it appears BAL was not aware of the second key. So the evidence to me
>indicates that it is NSA's key, and Microsoft does not want to admit
>it because it makes for bad PR. Or that Microsoft is doing a poor job
>of in it's press releases!
Or _NSAKEY is the ironic name some nameless cypherpunk, working in the
bowels of Microsoft, gave the second key s/he specifically added as a patch
area, in order to make it easy to add strong cryptographic modules outside
the USA.
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