Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Nonetheless, it doesn't install a lot of confidence in perpective
users (and buyers) of the OS. ;-)


- ferg


-- Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:

On 2/15/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:
> REBloomfield writes "The BBC is reporting that the British Government is
> working with Microsoft in order to gain backdoor access to hard drives
> encrypted by the forthcoming Windows Vista file system. Professor Anderson,
> professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, urged the
> Government to contact Microsoft over fears that evidence could be lost by
> suspects claiming to have forgotten their encryption key."

Anyone who has worked with EFS should know that MS encryption is
nothing to write home about. I am sure even if there isnt a "backdoor"
it wont be hard to crack.

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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