Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden leak reveals

Re:Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden l... by andrewgleave on Friday July 12, 2013 @12:24PM (#6033462)

Take a look at Alex Ionescu's "Ninja's and Harry Potter" talk from NoSuchCon this year [1].

He specifically mentions he could access the FileVault key of a machine by having physical access, and discovered two secret keys (KPPW and KPST) one of which is enabled when the input buffer is "SpecialisRevelio" [2].

It's a very interesting deck to read through.

[1] http://www.nosuchcon.org/talks/D1_02_Alex_Ninjas_and_Harry_P... [2] http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Specialis_Revelio

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Re:Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden l... by Osmium on Friday July 12, 2013 @05:00PM (#6035170)

That's really very interesting, and quite concerning. I saw that talk was only presented in May. Any new info since then?

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