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New Vista Random Numbers to Include NSA Backdoor?
Schneier is reporting that Microsoft has added the new Dual_EC-DRBG random-number generator to Vista SP1. This random-number generator is the same one discussed earlier that may have a secret NSA backdoor built into it.
I guess it's not so secret then, is it?
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
You're concerned about security, and you're using WINDOWS VISTA???
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
i seeded the dual_EC-DRBG with the following ASCII strings the and got the following output in ASCII:
missionaccomplished -> LOL
waterboard -> buckshottotheface
osamabinladen -> loofahnotfalafel
iraq -> vietnam
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
What Rights Online?
...does every article about Vista make me less likely to ever use it? Aren't things like this supposed to _improve_ with time?
What kind of commie doesn't just trust the NSA? I mean, we've got a FISA to protect us from the government and from corporations cooperating with rogue regimes, right?
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make install -not war
Maybe the NSA could have thought a little harder at entering a back door code. Secret sources have revealed the NSA back door code to be.
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A
..........FULL STOP.
I hope the NSA thought to put a screen door on their backdoor, what with all the bees in the internet
"Don't worry, our Chinese contractors assure us there are no NSA backdoors"
Windows update doesn't update that now, there will be an update to make windows update update this though.