More food for thought? --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://russell.flora.org/work/> PPPoE for Linux - do you want to help get this improved? http://www.cosource.com/cgi-bin/cos.pl/wish/info/118 Your use of GIF may be illegal! http://www.flora.org/flora.comnet-www/1525 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:13:58 -0400 (EDT) From: David F. Skoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [oclug] Window has NSA-sponsored back door See http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa.html. Microsoft has put a "back door" in the Windows cryptography API allowing acces by the U.S. NSA. Here's a juicy quote: "The result is that it is tremendously easier for the NSA to load unauthorized security services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once these security services are loaded, they can effectively compromise your entire operating system. For non-American IT managers relying on WinNT to operate highly secure data centers, this find is worrying. The US government is currently making it as difficult as possible for "strong" crypto to be used outside of the US; that they have also installed a cryptographic back-door in the world's most abundant operating system should send a strong message to foreign IT managers." Cryptonym Research does, however, provide a workaround because of a bug in the Microsoft implementation of the back door. :-) -- David. - The oclug list is run automagically by Majordomo version 1.94.4 Please send mail questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/faq/listfaq.html
