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UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
H_TeXMeX_H:
Maybe if you find some open-source encryption software it will probably not have a back door ... or you can check the code yourself and see
Aloone_Jonez:
It is possible to encrypt something without having a backdoor, in fact it's reasonably simple,
I don't know why companies just don't do it. I made a very simple encryption program in QBasic once,it just asked for a password and added each letter in the pass word togeather, then made a hash key by setting the random number seed to that value then adding each byte of the file to the next random number plus a byte value of a charicter in the password (a different one each time). Bingo the file just looks like random data and there's no way of decrypting it without the password and I'm no genius.
MacX:
uk could just use windows and find their own backdoors... just use it and ull see whole thing is a backdoor :O
Pathos:
If there is a backdoor then anyone can crack it...
it may be difficult but its always possible.
If a large business wants to get data out of a hard drive there will probably be a company in china or india in a couple of months that will do it for them for a respectable fee :/
if a business wants encryption they want secure encryption not encryption from people who aren't friends of microsoft...
who would trust microsoft not to put a back door in anyway?
Jack2000:
:] yup
design your own open source fire wall :D
make a telnet
listening port to listen for a password
and only when one is present then out side connections are allowed :)
else only you can control it :D
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