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'''_NSAKEY''' was a [[variable (computer science)|variable]] name discovered in [[Windows NT 4]] [[Windows NT 4.0#Service Packs|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 ==
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Microsoft denied that the NSA has access to the _NSAKEY secret key.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-03/tech/9909_03_windows.nsa.02_1_national-security-agency-cryptography-windows-nt4?_s=PM:TECH
|title=NSA key to Windows an open question
|date=
3 September 19991999-09-03
|accessdate=2011-11-20
}}</ref>

It was possible to remove the second _NSAKEY using the following (note this was for Windows software in 1999).

<blockquote>There is good news among the bad, however. It turns out that there is a flaw in the way the "crypto_verify" function is implemented. Because of the way the crypto verification occurs, users can easily eliminate or replace the NSA key from the operating system without modifying any of Microsoft's original
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