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Schneier: Never use it (MS has added RNG that could have an NSA backdoor into Vista).
- downer 19y agoVista is proprietary. They can stick in a backdoor wherever they want. Wasn't there recently an issue with Windows Update ignoring your settings and updating itself anyway? http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62032221,00.htm http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62032221,0... http://www.betanews.com/article/Experts_Astonished_to_Learn_Windows_Update_Updates_Itself/1189782200 http://www.betanews.com/article/Experts_Astonished_to_Learn_... Not to mention all the hidden metadata and undo information in your MS Word files. If you value privacy, using a proprietary OS (including OS X) is not the way to get it.
- tptacek 19y agoThis is really a tempest in a teacup. NSA influenced a NIST standard; MSFT implemented the NIST standard. Dual EC is not default behavior for Vista. There's no evidence of a deliberate backdoor, and most of the failure modes for crypto RNGs involve a threat model you don't care about: someone who can read/write memory from arbitrary processes or the kernel.