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Re: Microsoft marries RSA Security to Windows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy M.Silvernail)
Wed Oct 9 10:38:40 2002
From: Roy M.Silvernail <roy@scytale.com>
Reply-To: roy@scytale.com
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 06:10:20 -0500
In-Reply-To: <p05111a2db9c94eecc1ef@[66.149.49.6]>
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 10:11 pm, it was said:
> Microsoft marries RSA Security to Windows
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27499.html
[...]
> The first initiatives will centre on Microsoft's licensing of RSA SecurID
> two-factor authentication software and RSA Security's development of an RSA
> SecurID Software Token for Pocket PC.
And here, I thought that a portion of the security embodied in a SecurID
token was the fact that it was a tamper-resistant, independent piece of
hardware. Now M$ wants to put the PRNG out in plain view, along with its
seed value. This cherry is just begging to be picked by some blackhat,
probably exploiting a hole in Pocket Outlook.
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