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'''_NSAKEY''' is a variable name discovered in [[Windows NT]] 4 Service Pack 5 (which had been released unstripped of its [[Debug symbol|symbolic debugging]] data) in August [[1999]] by Andrew D. Fernandes of [[Cryptonym Corporation]]. That variable contained a 1024-bit [[public key]].

== Overview ==
(contracted; show full)ny clear purposes according to van Someren,<ref>{{cite web |title=How NSA access was built into Windows |publisher=Heise |date=1999-01-04 |url=http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html |accessdate=2007-01-07}}</ref> and it is unclear whether it is present in final builds or just beta builds. ([http://web.archive.org/web/20061124104925/www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/security/news/backdoor.mspx There is no 'Back Door' in Windows] conflicts with [http://web.archive.org/web/20000
617094917816181539/http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa/msft-nsa.html Microsoft, the NSA, and You] (link suspiciously removed from the wayback machine) and [http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html How NSA access was built into Windows])

== Microsoft's reaction ==
Microsoft, however, denied all such suggestions. "This report is inaccurate and unfounded. The key in question is a Microsoft key. It is maintained and safeguarded by Microsoft, and we have not shared this key with the NSA or any other party."<ref>{{cite press release|title=Microsoft Says Speculation About Security and NSA Is "Inaccurate and Unfounded"|publ(contracted; show full){{reflist}}

[[Category:Microsoft criticisms and controversies]]
[[Category:History of cryptography]]
[[Category:Conspiracy theories]]
[[Category:National Security Agency]]

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