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Subj: Fwd: NSA backdoor into windows. A good reason to run Linux or Mac

Date: 3/3/02 9:08:58 AM Pacific Standard Time

 

 

 

 

 

You might find this more than a little interesting.

 

 

Subject: Fwd: NSA backdoor into windows. A good reason to run Linux or Mac

Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 11:57:04 -0500

 

 

How NSA access was built into Windows

Duncan Campbell 04.09.1999

 

Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA.

 

A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that

special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency

have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is

built into every version of the Windows operating system now in

use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors).

The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations

earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had

built an NSA "help information" trapdoor into its Notes system,

and that security functions on other software systems had been

deliberately crippled.

 

The first discovery of the new NSA access system was made two

years ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren. But it was

only a few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the

access system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA.

 

Computer security specialists have been aware for two years that

unusual features are contained inside a standard Windows

software "driver" used for security and encryption functions.

The driver, called ADVAPI.DLL, enables and controls a range of

security functions. If you use Windows, you will find it in the

C:\Windows\system directory of your computer.

 

ADVAPI.DLL works closely with Microsoft Internet Explorer, but

will only run crypographic functions that the US governments

allows Microsoft to export. That information is bad enough news,

from a European point of view. Now, it turns out that ADVAPI

will run special programmes inserted and controlled by NSA. As

yet, no one knows what these programmes are, or what they do.

Dr Nicko van Someren reported at last year's Crypto 98

conference that he had disassembled the ADVADPI driver. He found

it contained two different keys. One was used by Microsoft to

control the cryptographic functions enabled in Windows, in

compliance with US export regulations. But the reason for

building in a second key, or who owned it, remained a mystery.

 

A second key

 

Two weeks ago, a US security company came up with conclusive

evidence that the second key belongs to NSA. Like Dr van

Someren, Andrew Fernandez, chief scientist with Cryptonym of

Morrisville, North Carolina, had been probing the presence and

significance of the two keys. Then he checked the latest Service

Pack release for Windows NT4, Service Pack 5. He found that

Microsoft's developers had failed to remove or "strip" the

debugging symbols used to test this software before they

released it. Inside the code were the labels for the two keys.

One was called "KEY". The other was called "NSAKEY".

 

Fernandes reported his re-discovery of the two CAPI keys, and

theirsecret meaning, to "Advances in Cryptology, Crypto'99"

conference held in Santa Barbara. According to those present at

the conference, Windows developers attending the conference did

not deny that the "NSA" key was built into their software. But

they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it had been

put there without users' knowledge.

 

A third key?!

 

But according to two witnesses attending the conference, even

Microsoft's top crypto programmers were astonished to learn that

the version of ADVAPI.DLL shipping with Windows 2000 contains

not two, but three keys. Brian LaMachia, head of CAPI

development at Microsoft was "stunned" to learn of these

discoveries, by outsiders. The latest discovery by Dr van

Someren is based on advanced search methods which test and

report on the "entropy" of programming code.

 

Within the Microsoft organisation, access to Windows source code

is said to be highly compartmentalized, making it easy for

modifications to be inserted without the knowledge of even the

respective product managers.

 

Researchers are divided about whether the NSA key could be

intended to let US government users of Windows run classified

crypto systems on their machines or whether it is intended to

open up anyone's and everyone's Windows computer to intelligence

gathering techniques deployed by NSA's burgeoning corps of

"information warriors".

 

According to Fernandez of Cryptonym, the result of having the

secret key inside your Windows operating system "is that it is

tremendously easier for the NSA to load unauthorized security

services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once these

security services are loaded, they can effectively compromise

your entire operating system". The NSA key is contained inside

all versions of Windows from Windows 95 OSR2 onwards.

 

"For non American IT managers relying on Windows NT to operate

highly secure data centres, this find is worrying", he added.

"The US government is currently making it as difficult as

possible for "strong" crypto to be used outside of the US. That

they have also installed a cryptographic back door in the

world's most abundant operating system should send a strong

message to foreign IT managers".

 

"How is an IT manager to feel when they learn that in every copy

of Windows sold, Microsoft has a 'back door' for NSA - making it

orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your

computer?" he asked.

 

Can the loophole be turned round against the snoopers?

 

Dr van Someren feels that the primary purpose of the NSA key

inside Windows may be for legitimate US government use. But he

says that there cannot be a legitimate explanation for the third

key in Windows 2000 CAPI. "It looks more fishy", he said.

Fernandez believes that NSA's built in loophole can be turned

round against the snoopers. The NSA key inside CAPI can be

replaced by your own key, and used to sign cryptographic

security modules from overseas or unauthorised third parties,

unapproved by Microsoft or the NSA. This is exactly what the US

government has been trying to prevent. A demonstration "how to

do it" program that replaces the NSA key can be found on

Cryptonym's website.

 

According to one leading US cryptographer, the IT world should

be thankful that the subversion of Windows by NSA has come to

light before the arrival of CPUs that handles encrypted

instruction sets. These would make the type of discoveries made

this month impossible. "Had the next generation CPU's with

encrypted instruction sets already been deployed,we would have

never found out about NSAKEY."

 

 

 

 

Frank Ney N4ZHG WV/EMT-B LPWV NRA(L) ProvNRA GOA CCRKBA JPFO

--

Black Friday - The name given to October 26th, 2001, the day George W.

Bush signed the "USA PATRIOT Act" which marked the end of the United

States as a democratic republic, and its emergence as a police state.

The only senator to oppose the bill was Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin

senator, who was assassinated 2 years later by agents of the Homeland

Security Office for "seditious criticism of the State."

- Encylopedia Britannica, 2162 CE edition

Just Say No to Gestapo Tactics http://reduce.to/justsayno/

Abuses by the BATF http://www.hamnet.net/~n4zhg/batfabus.html

--

[xrhstarasxxx]

den xreiazotan na vgei sthn fora gia na mporw me to mikro mou mialo na eimai 100% sigouros oti windows = usa spying on me. Den xreiazetai na eisai teras eufiias. Sigoura ta windows roufianeuoun plhrofories pou ekmetaleuontai pikilotropos kivernhtikes yphresies.

[BladeRunner]

Tι λες τωρα.....

[trospe]

@xrhstarasxxx

 

Ναί φίλε μου,αλλά τώρα υπάρχουν και αποδείξεις για την παγκόσμια αστυνομία,μαζί με το alexa spyware από Ι.Τ. Specialists! ;-)

[jimbo13_1983]

γαμιόληδες αμερικανοί, (συγνώμη για την έκφραση) αλλά έτσι είναι....

 

θα μου πείς απο την μία αν δεν ήταν οι αμερικανοί θα ήταν οι ιάπωνες και αν δεν ήταν οι ιάπωνες θα ήταν κάποιοι άλλοι...

 

τέσπα...

[coffeex]

Petakseta sta skoupidia reeee.......... oute ta antivirus oute ta antispyware 8a sas swsoun........

[drm]

Θα μου εξηγήσει κάποιος πώς όλες αυτές οι πληροφορίες περνάν μέσα από τα FireWalls, χωρίς να μπορεί κανένα να τις δει ???

[kkarab]

Θα μου εξηγήσει κάποιος πώς όλες αυτές οι πληροφορίες περνάν μέσα από τα FireWalls, χωρίς να μπορεί κανένα να τις δει ???

 

 

Afou kai ta firewalls kai ta antivirus einai grammena gia na afinoun tetoies plirofories na pernane...

 

Asxeto(i mallon oxi): prin 12 meres ekana format kai sto neo setarisma evala zonealarm pro teleutaia ekdosi.Tora pou grafo exo peripou 812.000 intrusions(se 12 meres tonizo),mipos na kano pali format,mipos kapoios me goustarei polu,mipos na kleidoso tin porta,mipos na katavaso ta tilefona...

[nimik]

Afou kai ta firewalls kai ta antivirus einai grammena gia na afinoun tetoies plirofories na pernane...

 

Asxeto(i mallon oxi): prin 12 meres ekana format kai sto neo setarisma evala zonealarm pro teleutaia ekdosi.Tora pou grafo exo peripou 812.000 intrusions(se 12 meres tonizo)' date='mipos na kano pali format,mipos kapoios me goustarei polu,mipos na kleidoso tin porta,mipos na katavaso ta tilefona...[/quote']

χαχαχα Καλο!

[Αλέξης]

Oti kai na kaneis se "blepoun", kai se blepoun.Apo thn stigmh poy oi doryforoi toys,synergazontai apsoga me ton korio poy koybalame oloi epanw mas, (blepe kinhto thlefwno).Eproxtes sto radiofwno ti akoysa.Kapoios Amerikanos aksiwmatoyxos, se kapoio aerodromio (Den thymamai pio), ektos Amerikhs pantws,toy klepsane to kinhto.Phre thlefwno sth Amerikh thn CIA,kai se 5 lepta brhkane ton klefth !!!!!.Kai sto eggys mellon,koybalame den koybalame kinhto, tha mas parakolouthoyn apo to tsiparisma (chip),poy tha fame ypoxrewtika.Ta Windows,kai isws ola ta leitourgika,perisotero ta Linux (giati einai dwrean)???,einai kataskopoi.Ta GPS ti einai, a8wa ergaleia?.

Diabathria,taytothtes,pistwtikes klp.Ayta kai xeirotera exei h pagkosmiopoihsh.

Oloi stis sphlies xwris ypologistes,taytothtes,kinhta,kai alla tetoia kaloydia.Kai oxi eksw apo tis sphlies,giati tha mas fwtografizoyn oi doryforoi.

Ta XALIA MAS.....

[coffeex]

"...Ta Windows,kai isws ola ta leitourgika,perisotero ta Linux (giati einai dwrean)???,einai kataskopoi..." <- Mhn grafoume kai oti 8eloume hmarton... to linux giati nomizeis oti einai open source; gia skpepsou ligo. To linux den anaptysetai sthn Amerikh alla apo programmatistes se olon ton planhth.

Oloi trexte na agorasetai windows pou anaptysontai sthn Amerikh apo mia etairia poy xrhmatodothse ton polemo toy Irak dhladh synergazetai teleia me to kratos..

[-NetHawk-]

coffeex τα επιχειρηματα σου πραγματικα με αφηνουν αφωνο....Ενταξει για το λινουξ εχεις δικιο,ειναι ενα open source λειτουργικο που προφανως αποκλειεται να περιεχει κακοβουλο κωδικα...Αλλα το να αφηνεις αιχμες(?) οτι ειμεθα "συνεργατες" του Μπους και της Αμερικης και "υποκινητες" και "υποστηρικτες" του πολεμου παει πολυ δεν νομιζεις....??

 

A και δεν τρεχουμε εμεις,αυτα "τρεχουν"(με τρελλες ταχυτητες στην Ελλαδα:D)σε εμας....!!

[or1onas]

Ta Windows' date='kai isws ola ta leitourgika,perisotero ta Linux (giati einai dwrean)???,einai kataskopoi.

Ta XALIA MAS.....[/quote']

 

File Alexh, mperdeueis thn ennoia ths agglikhs lexhs 'free' metaxy eleu8erou kai dwrean logismikou (to opoio einai ontws problhmatiko san oros).

Den yparxei logos peraiterw analyshs gia to 8ema auto, apla 8a h8ela k gw na sou pw oti exaitias tou oti to linux einai o/s ME ANOIXTO KWDIKA (prosbasimo apo opoiondhpote - k auto einai to ousiwdes sthn periptwsh mas), dinei th dynatothta na mporei o ka8enas na dei ti 'periergo' isws yparxei ekei mesa k na enhmerwsei ton ypoloipo kosmo.

Auto se anti8esh me px. ton kwdika twn windows, o opoios einai KLEISTOS, k synepws den einai se 8esh o ka8enas na elegxei to pws exei graftei k ti 'kindynous' eggymonei...

[coffeex]

[NetHawk] den me katalabes

H katantia ths Elladas fenetai apo thn teleytaia protash pou egrapses... Polles xwres ksilonoun apo tis dimosies yphresies ta windows kai strefontai pros to linux akomh kai sta sxoleia enw sthn Ellada rixnoun ton ypno toy dikaiou...

[nmtray2]

Ο λογος που ξηλωνονται τα Win ειναι και πολιτικος.

Ο πολεμος πρεπει απο καπου ν'αρχισει...σορυ για το γριφο αλλα δεν γινεται αλλιως.

Δυστυχως, αν γνωριζαμε ολοι με τι μεθοδους μας παρακολουθουν θα ειχαμε κατεβει στους δρομους τσιριζοντας. πχ, υπαρχει τροπος να καταγραφονται συνομιλιες στα χαρτονομισματα...