Is there a ZAP to alter the NSAKEY in Windows

06/24/2013 | none

[Neidermeyer]

Is there a utility available to alter the NSAKEY in windows to a new value? Something along the lines of the old IBM utility AMASPZAP...

[Carriage Hill]

I can’t find any MSAKEY in Win-7 Pro 64x. But I did find ADVAPI.DLL in 21 places:

http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/06/nsa-has-total-access-via-microsoft-windows/

[Carriage Hill]

NSAKEY.

Still on 1st mug of coffee...

[Lazamataz]

NSAKEY? What is this?

[Neidermeyer]

NSAKEY? What is this?
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backdoor inside ADVAPI.DLL

[palmer]

Really old and long story. Someone looked through the symbols on Win2k (IIRC) that are given out to developers. One of the symbols was NSAKEY. Possibly put there as a joke, but who knows. In any case the NSAKEY was not a "back door" or a way to decrypt stuff that you encrypt with your other keys.

That doesn't mean that NSA does not have real back doors or other ways to look at your private data parts.

[palmer]

The NSA-controlled wikipedia has a pretty good explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY and it was in NT4, not W2K. Those were public keys to verify driver signing. Driver signing is rewritten and unless you are still using NT4SP5 the NSAKEY doesn't matter (and probably never did).

Now for the usual caveat, this doesn't mean there are no new back doors, but they would probably be a lot more subtle and sophisticated than NSAKEY.

[phockthis]

sfl

[The Antiyuppie]

“That doesn’t mean that NSA does not have real back doors or other ways to look at your private data parts.”

NSAKEY was one of those that was meant to be found.

[Ham Hock]

There is a utility written that is supposed to remove the key. If you google it (or startpage it), you can find references to it. It seems most of the links do not work. Not sure if it is safe to download anyway.

[Ham Hock]

I would just dual boot windows with Linux. It seems windows is compromised at this point. I am not seeing or reading anything on the net that tells how to fix windows so it is not compromised. Something may come up in a few months, but no one seems to know what to do just yet.

[Carriage Hill]

I was going to delete it, but think I’ll hold-off on that. No telling how embedded and cross-linked a *.dll file is in the OS.

[X-spurt]

You are probably getting very warm.......

Only way to insure spooks don’t snoop around is to unplug or take the battery out. If you can use it, so can they.