Edited UTC. Lennie Complete bullshit, you know Ballmer would never use anything from Google. You Google-hating Soft-Tard! MysterMask categorically denied these claims. Why bother talking about totally irrelevant things on the front page? So does Windows have any backdoors? Will Microsoft ever admit if Windows has backdoors? Of course not.
Is it worth discussing any press statements from Microsoft about it? Not without any hard facts. MS denying the backdoor rumors is not news to me. AKA, the side entrance…. I was only answering the question that was asked Whether we can ever know is of course a different question. It can only install of course if your PC has UEFI… so most are still unaffected Supposedly this module also has to do with Phoenix support for loading the OS nearly instantly but I would like proof of that.
Any comments on that? I would investigate myself but only have dated HW at home. That makes me feel so much better. How about a non-secret backdoor? Edit: corrected service name Edited UTC. Edit: corrected service name Not that I use Windows, but anyway that is apparently not quite the whole story. You can either get owned, or you can get owned.
There is another way. You could restrict yourself to installing only software which was auditable by people who: 1 did not write that software, and 2 are able to read and understand and audit source code, and who 3 use the same code themselves for their own systems.
Since their interest is your interest, you get the benefit of their audit. Wow, I had no idea that the Girl Scouts are responsible for the crop circle phenomenon. Few people do, few even think to ask the question. Give it a rest.. Zbigniew Famous saying of prince Alexander Gorchakov. If we assume that someone wanted to put a backdoor in there: 1. Yamin Just a lil aside as I noticed a few comments about open source trust.
You do the math…. Debugging symbols are used to test pre-release software. This driver is used for controlling a range of encryption functions within the security subsystem of Windows, present in every release of Windows from Windows 95 B OSR2 onward. The two keys were discovered by Nicko van Someren during advanced search and entropy testing of Microsoft programming code.
The entire debacle was too soon after the revelations that software giant Lotus had been caught helping the NSA deliberately crippling the security functions in their Lotus Notes software. This was done using a backdoor to subvert the security subsystem in Lotus Notes. The high level of compartmentalisation also makes it easy for modifications to be inserted into the Windows codebase without the knowledge of team management. It is because of the high level of compartmentalisation of the Windows source code that many Microsoft attendees at the Crypto 99 Conference including Brian LaMachia, head of Microsoft CAPI development were shocked by the findings presented at the conference.
The NSA plays a large role in the decision over whether computer hardware and software can be exported from the United States of America. These findings are worrying for IT managers relying on Windows to operate highly secure data centres and even governments outside the United States of America. Microsoft claimed that all cryptographic keys shipped within Windows are used to verify signatures on cryptographic service providers CSPs and are not shared with any third parties.
He revealed 33, systems were found to be infected among the scanned 1. DoublePulsar is a means to an end. Security researchers from Errata Security detected roughly 41, infected machines, while researchers from Below0day detected more than 30, infected machines.
Another security firm, Binary Edge, also performed a mass scan and detected more than , Windows computers infected with DoublePulsar, confirming that the number of compromised hosts is growing.
Microsoft , however, believes that the reports aren't accurate. RSA, however, made the algorithm the default in its BSafe toolkit for Java and C developers until this week when it told WIRED that it was changing the default following the renewed controversy over it.
The company sent an advisory to developer customers "strongly" urging them to change the default to one of a number of other random number generator algorithms RSA supports. The company is currently doing an internal review of all of its products to see where the algorithm gets invoked in order to change those. RSA actually added the algorithm to its libraries in or , before NIST approved it for the standard in and before the government made it a requirement for FIPS certification, says Sam Curry, the company's chief technology officer.
The company then made it the default algorithm in BSafe and in its key management system after the algorithm was added to the standard. Curry said that elliptic curve algorithms were all the rage at the time and RSA chose it as the default because it provided certain advantages over the other random number generators, including what he says was better security.
Some algorithms go up and some come down and we make the best decisions we can in any point in time," he says. From our perspective it looked like elliptic curve would be immune to those things. Curry says the fact that the algorithm is slower actually provides it with better security in at least one respect.
So the fact that it's slower sometimes gives it a wider sample set to do initial seeding," he says. Despite the renewed controversy over the algorithm and standard, Microsoft managers say they still don't think the weaknesses constitute an intentional backdoor. Callas agrees. He thinks it is simply bad cryptography that was included in the standard to round-out the selection so that there would be at least one elliptic curve algorithm in the standard. But one advantage to having the algorithm supported in products like Vista -- and which may be the reason the NSA pushed it into the standard -- is that even if it's not the default algorithm for encryption on a system, as long as it's an option on the system, an intruder, like the NSA, can get into the system and change the registry to make it the default algorithm used for encryption, thereby theoretically making it easy for the NSA to undermine the encryption and spy on users of the machine.
Schneier says this is a much more efficient and stealth way of undermining the encryption than simply installing a keystroke logger or other Trojan malware that could be detected. You can't say that was a mistake. It's a massive piece of code collecting keystrokes," he said. It is a low conspiracy, highly deniable way of getting a backdoor. So there's a benefit to getting it into the library and into the product.
To date, the only confirmation that the algorithm has a backdoor comes in the Times story, based on NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden, which the Times and two other media outlets saw. An editorial published by the Times this weekend re-asserted the claim : "Unbeknown to the many users of the system, a different government arm, the National Security Agency, secretly inserted a 'back door' into the system that allowed federal spies to crack open any data that was encoded using its technology.
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