Da Vinci judge's secret code revealed
Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:25 AM ET
By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) - Mystery solved. It was the admiral.
A secret code embedded in the text of a court ruling in the case of Dan
Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code has been cracked, but far from
revealing an
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Ah -- corporate key escrow. An overt back door for Little Brother, rather
than a covert one for Big Brother
the key escrow meetings attempted to differentiate between keys used for
authentication and keys used for securing corporate data (I only went to
a
note from the corporate side ... is was specifically the escrow of
encryption keys for data at rest ... as part of prudent corporate asset
protection; it was not escrow of authentication keys nor escrow of
encryption keys used for communication.
the internal network was larger than the
and real-time reference from today ... on backup tapes ... at off-site
location that weren't encrypted (and should have been):
Data storage firm apologizes for loss of railroad data tapes
Information on as many as 17,000 workers at risk
Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In an article on disk encryption
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/26/pgp_infosec/), the following
paragraph appears:
BitLocker has landed Redmond in some hot water over its insistence
that there are no back doors for law
