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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

it's also very broken.  NTBUGTRAQ article last month, from
netect/bindview, it's on their web site, too.

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Tim Potter wrote:

> 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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