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Re: Microsoft CAPI
Mike McNally writes:
>> 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.
At 03:13 PM 10/9/96 -0500, Andrew Loewenstern wrote:
> I ask: "Who Cares?" It is easy enough to distribute with the
secure-non-GAK
> plug-in a patch for disabling the module authentication. Heck, you could
> even make an ActiveX applet that did it.
Better than disabling, would be to give the user the choice of whose
signature to trust. Perhaps many users would prefer a crypto engine signed
by Zimmerman, rather than Microsoft.
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