SYSKEY, TNG freeze, 2.0.x->TNG merge and other thoughts

Tim Potter tpot at linuxcare.com.au
Wed Feb 9 14:38:15 GMT 2000


Well for anyone else who doesn't know what SYSKEY is a short surfing
session is required.  Potted version: it's a technique for increasing
the security of SAM information in the Windows registry by using a
128-bit encryption key either stored on the local machine, floppy
disk, or entered at startup.

http://www.cert.org/security-improvement/implementations/i028.02.html


Tim.


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