http://digglicious.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-nsa-access-was-built-into-windows.html
"A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). "
This is probably not true, and no longer relevant if
it were. Note that this story is from 1999. That
"NSAKEY" still exists, just renamed KEY2. The
complete story is even on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
It appears that NSA or somebody did try to suppress
the NSAKeyReplace program when it came out. However,
as pointed out by many, the program could be used to
ADD secure cryptography to Windows in other countries,
at a time when the NSA was trying to outlaw exports of
cryptography.
Harland Harrison
LP of San Mateo County CA
[Disclaimer: Harland is a contract programmer,
currently working at a Microsoft facility.]
--- Steve Dekorte <steve@...> a �crit�:
how-nsa-access-was-built-into-windows.html
"A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has
revealed that special access codes prepared by the
US National
Security Agency have been secretly built into
Windows. The NSA