[FYI] NT4 flunks crypto test

[ralf.stephan@fitug.de]

According to linuxtoday:
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0111ntcrypt.html

   Last summer, Microsoft hoped to see NT 4.0 breeze through government
   tests of encryption features such as Data Encryption Standard and
   digital signatures. But things didn't go exactly as planned. Products
   must pass the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-1
   certification test before they can be sold to the U.S. and Canadian
   governments. Not only did the Redmond, Wash., giant fail the
   cryptography tests, but Microsoft officials now acknowledge that the
   lab scrutiny exposed shortcomings in NT's cryptographic processing
   that will force Microsoft to redesign the operating system.
   ...
   Microsoft admits it might have
   sidestepped the interoperability mess if it had gotten into the
   government's test program earlier. "We got into this a bit late,"
   Arnold confesses. "We weren't effectively paying attention." Late
   indeed. The FIPS 140-1 test program was started five years ago by the
   National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with help from
   the National Security Agency.
   ...

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