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I was reading a post at ntbugtraq.com, it was really scaring, someone has found a cryptoapi call in the windows subsystem called "NSA_Key"... Imagine what you can do if you have the private key, you could get on almost any windows pc in the world.
Microsoft said the NSA told them there should be a "backup" key, but MS it's not giving any explanation as to why... really weird stuf.
For those who are lovers of conspiracy theories, this one is a good one... for those who have a powered by the pengiun machine, another reason to stay open source...
[ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com...]
Happy Reading
Cheers
/SwiZZ
The NSA can do anything they want at any time - they don't need no stinkin' keys!
Regards,
Brent
Either that means nobody is using encryption right anyway, or the government can break it much more easily than we think they can.
Mack.
...there were several wiretaps where encryption had been encountered but none in which the encryption kept the law enforcement officers from obtaining the plaintext
There is an old thread where someone was arguing w/me about the ability of various gov't agencies to decrypt various "unbreakable" encryption algos - they were wrong ;)
Regards,
Brent
if the NSA know enough about you to want access to your pc then you probably have more to worry about than your operating system.
Yes, you are right... I'm just worried about "privacy", is that impossible to have?
Hi dingman,
Either that means nobody is using encryption right anyway, or the government can break it much more easily than we think they can.
I Hope PGP is working....
If you find that link, please let me know...
/SwiZZ
I Hope PGP is working....
Who cares if PGP works unless I'm also sure that nobody has access to my key? Crack my box when the disk with my key on it is in the drive, and you've got it. Walk into my house and make a copy of the disk, you've also got it. Or just take the disk, and suddenly I can't even read what people are sending me, but you can.
For that matter, PGP working depends on RSA/Diffie-Helman (depending on which your key uses) being secure, as well as whichever symetric cypher you use. How many of them does the NSA know how to break?
Encryption was reported to have been encountered in 16 wiretaps terminated in 2002 and in 18 wiretaps terminated in calendar year 2001 or earlier but reported for the first time in 2002; however, in none of these cases was encryption reported to have prevented law enforcement officials from obtaining the plain text of communications intercepted.
ht tp://www.uscourts.gov/wiretap02/2002wttxt.pdf
That's from page 3
