1996-10-09 - Re: Microsoft CAPI
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From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
To: m5@tivoli.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-10-09 20:14:20 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:14:20 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:14:20 -0700 (PDT)
To: m5@tivoli.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft CAPI
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Mike McNally writes:
> And so what happens when the Microsoft key is compromised?
> It might be hard to break by purely cryptographic means, but
> surely there are some people at Microsoft who aren't
> millionaires.
I ask: "Who Cares?" It is easy enough to distribute with the secure-non-GAK
plug-in a patch for disabling the module authentication. Heck, you could
even make an ActiveX applet that did it...
andrew
"Click Here to Download and Install Real Crypto"
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