Microsoft CAPI

Mike McNally m5 at tivoli.com
Wed Oct 9 09:48:23 PDT 1996


Ravi Pandya wrote:
> ... You can't load an encryption engine into Windows 95 or 
> Windows NT unless that engine has been specially signed by 
> Microsoft's corporate key.

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.

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