Administrator Lite Posted December 18, 2007 Administrator Share Posted December 18, 2007 A US cryptographer is warning that the random number generator Microsoft is bundling with SP1 includes a backdoor exploitable by the National Security Agency. Random number generators are important because they provide the bedrock for SSL keys, which ensure secure internet communications for web browsing, email and instant messaging. Breaking the random number generator could leave user communications open to interception. Security blogger Bruce Schneier believes this is precisely what will happen to the "Dual_EC-DRBG" random number generator employed by Vista. "There are a bunch of constants - fixed numbers - in the standard used to define the algorithm's elliptic curve," he says on his blog. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 No privacy anywhere, never been, never will be. My sad opinion on this, even I don't fully understand the technicalities, I get the message. And I don't think XP or other Microsoft stuff is cleaner, it would be just a naive assumption. Linux also is not much better, even if it is free and etc. The power craving of the human being is above all morale and principles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marke68 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 B) Have to agree with toyo nothing is secure anymore,its almost exactly as George Orwell predicted.... :dance2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 B) Have to agree with toyo nothing is secure anymore,its almost exactly as George Orwell predicted.... :dance2:i agree with toyo also,if they build it someone can hack.its called reverse engineering.i phone for example,cracked in i hour by a 15 year old,then by the chinese.i think the big brother theory is a might premature,the large companies have the recourses to do any of that.all they have to do is hire the hacker.i dont think the governments are anywhere near what big corps can do, the only way they or us find out is from whistle blowers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 i think we hear about these things more than they actually happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 this is somewhat related... a few years ago when the USA decided to go after the drug lords in South America... they found their hands tied because the governments in many of those countries were not really cooperating and MOSTLY because the drug lords were using cell phones that could not be tapped...What they did was to place a satellite in orbit to intercept ALL cell phone communications with the claim they had a filter to listen to only the drug lord and the cartels conversations...now that is scary because technology has advanced quite a lot from those days...makes you wonder what they can do now and are just not telling us.no I am not paranoid........people really really are trying to get me :sneaky: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 no I am not paranoid........people really really are trying to get me :sneaky:why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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