MSoft crypto API's

[The Deviant]

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On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, jim bell wrote:

> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 20:34:11 -0800
> From: jim bell <jimbell at pacifier.com>
> To: George Kuzmowycz <gkuzmo at ix.netcom.com>, cypherpunks at toad.com
> Subject: Re: MSoft crypto API's
> 

[stuff moved to /dev/null]

> 
> Couldn't somebody IMPORT a piece of encryption software, have it signed by 
> Microsoft, then take the XOR of the signed and unsigned software and export 
> it?  (It's not a tool capable of encryption...)
> 

Hrmm.. at this point I am reminded of when mit.edu refused to allow my
brother to ftp the non-international version of PGP...

To make a long story short, he promptly received the exact same file from
a .de server.

> Or:  Microsoft presumably has foreign branches, or at least it could easily 
> afford to set up one.  What's to stop Microsoft from signing foreign 
> encryption software outside of the US?  The software is never exported 
> (since it's already outside the country...), so there's no USA-law involv
> ement.
> Jim Bell
> jimbell at pacifier.com
> 
> 

Perhaps the real question is this... Can MS reliablt develop a working and
secure encryption package that we should all trust in the first place?  I
doubt it, and I'll wager so does the NSA if you catch my drift...

 --Deviant


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