No they didn't. That was refuted long ago. The key in question simply allows signing of cryptographic modules for Windows as meeting NSA crypto export requirements so that they load in non US Windows versions. Because it was referred to as the 'NSA key' someone drew obvious (and wrong) conclusions.
The NSA having their own key to do that would be of minimal benefit to them when there are so many more direct methods of getting data from a PC they can change code on. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of glymr Sent: 14 May 2006 22:52 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Some legal trouble with TOR in France -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Tony wrote: > > Yes they could get code signed in theory, but it makes it that much > harder - im sure Microsoft wouldn't be very keen on signing code > for government organisations to spy on people - imagine the impact > on their sales if it became public knowledge. Anyway, you can spot > any changes in your boot config checksums and be immediately > alerted to a change. and it should be pointed out that microsoft has already been roasted publicly for putting a government key into some version of windows, i can't remember which, they've done it once, i doubt they'd dare to do it again though because people know they did it and would be looking for evidence of it now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEZ6ZoGkOzwaes7JsRA6BVAJ966ok03emE4fpaRCB7ImOyMujVVQCcD8II 0VZ2I+3AD1gL/0Wc45Q+ezY= =p9SM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
