How NSA access was built into Windows
Lyvim Xaphir
knightmerc at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 17 15:13:49 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 05:26 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 01:56, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 00:43:20 -0600,
> >
> > Rick Sewill <rsewill at cableone.net> wrote:
> >> Get the attention of people who can make a difference.
> >
> >The EFF is involved in several issues related to encryption and might be
> >an organization worth supporting to help keep strong encryption without
> >law enforcement key escrow legal for individuals and to bring to light
> >and limit overly broad government surveilance.
>
> I do, and we all should, support the EFF, as long as they represent our
> goals. OTOH, I'm not in favor of a key escrow that is not somehow
> distributed and trackerless as in bittorrent. Why? Because a single
> point becomes a vulnerability when a single, middle of the night raid,
> watergate style, can disable that whole infrastructure in one swell foop.
> If the black hats snoop the public key database, all they have gained is
> the ability to send me an encrypted message. Theoreticaly(sp) that
> doesn't give them the key to decrypt a message I might send.
>
> OTOH, the bigger the database, the easier it might be to analyze and
> recover the private key but I'm not an expert.
>
> I once saw it quoted that an expert was somebody more than 50 miles from
> home and carrying a briefcase. I don't qualify on either count. :)
That's a "consultant". ;)
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