NODE c7ce051eRE: Windows 95 encryption shell extension
gorkab@sanchez.com (Brian Gorka)Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:50:43 +0800
On Monday, February 19, 1996 4:32 AM, Andy Brown[SMTP:a.brown@nexor.co.uk]
wrote:
>http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/win32/codedrag/codedrag.htm
>
>Haven't tried it myself since I don't use Windows 95, just thought
>I'd report what I saw.
>
>
>- Andy
>
I downloaded this, AND installed it. It displays your password right on
the screen!!! No *s, no blind typing. Anyone looking over ytour shoulder
can see what you type as your passphrase! Come on.
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Brian Gorka
Key fingerprint = ED 7D 78 7E 95 E8 05 01 27 01 A1 74 FA 4B 86 53
NODE 1d5b65fdRe: Windows 95 encryption shell extension
Bruce Murphy <packrat@ratbox.rattus.uwa.edu.au>Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:20:11 +0800
In message <01BAFEAE.63BB64E0@loki>,
Brian Gorka wrote:
> On Monday, February 19, 1996 4:32 AM, Andy Brown[SMTP:a.brown@nexor.co.uk]
> wrote:
> >http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/win32/codedrag/codedrag.htm
> >
> >Haven't tried it myself since I don't use Windows 95, just thought
> >I'd report what I saw.
> >
>
> I downloaded this, AND installed it. It displays your password right on
> the screen!!! No *s, no blind typing. Anyone looking over ytour shoulder
> can see what you type as your passphrase! Come on.
>
Aha! but what you didn't know was that it was FV's card number
sniffer, and their obviously competent programmer needed another four
weeks to get the '*'s to come up...
One has to wonder about the security of binaries random people put up
especially for closed systems such as Win96 don't you?
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