Absolutely not a joke.

[Sampo Syreeni]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:

>But this once, the official MS/NSA explanation may be correct: That it's
>related to export approval, and does not in any way work as you describe.

But does that really matter if the key is there and makes it possible for
the NSA to produce 'secure' software?

(Of course, I haven't seen any verified report that says the key is actually
present in current non-debug builds, or that it is used in parallel with the
m$ one. I'm assuming.)

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university