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Strategies & Market Trends : LastShadow's Position Trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: AlienTech who wrote (21229)9/7/1999 6:29:00 AM
From: LastShadow  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 43080
 
"Fernandes said he discovered that Microsoft uses two keys,
instead of one, and that software code in Windows NT Service
Pack 5 identifies the second key as "NSAKEY."

Fernandes said the name indicates the second key is somehow
linked to the National Security Agency, but Microsoft and at least
one other security expert questioned (but did not deny) his conclusion.

Richard Smith, president of Phar Lap Software. "NSA could be an abbreviation for anything, such as non-standard authentication."

...except it isn't...