cryptography

Some of you may have noticed us improving our defense-in-depth practices for bulletins by supplying sha1 and sha2 hashes in the Knowledge Base (KB) articles. This has been most visible in the KB with the addition of the “File hash information” section, but it is also noted in the...

Revision Note: V1.2 (September 11, 2012): Clarified that applications and services that use RSA keys for cryptography and call into the CertGetCertificateChain function could be impacted by this update. Examples of these applications and services include but are not limited to encrypted email...

Ok, so I just got my Windows 7 on my HP 6530b laptop, and I have stored my documents on my fathers XP computer meanwhile. Problem is I can't connect to his computer. He can find be but I can't find him. I have been googling for a while now, and the things I have done to fix this is: - Change it...

Today, as a part of our continuing phased mitigation strategy recently discussed, we have initiated the additional hardening of Windows Update. We’ve also provided more information about the MD5 hash-collision attacks used by the Flame malware in the SRD blog. This information should help...

Hello, At Microsoft, our commitment is to help ensure customer trust in their computing experience. That was the impetus for Trustworthy Computing, and central to that is the priority we place on taking the necessary actions to help protect our customers. Yesterday, we issued Security Advisory...

Hello, We recently became aware of a complex piece of targeted malware known as “Flame” and immediately began examining the issue. As many reports assert, Flame has been used in highly sophisticated and targeted attacks and, as a result, the vast majority of customers are not at...

When you try to validate a copy of Windows, you may receive an error message that resembles the following: When you try to validate Windows from , Windows downloads an update , however when Windows tries to install the update, the update shows an error... Link Removed

Explains how you can configure the negotiation of stronger, FIPS-compliant cryptography in Windows XP and in later operating systems by enabling certain security settings. Link Removed

This KB article describes the proxy detection mechanism that the Cryptography (Crypto) API uses to download a CRL from a CRL distribution point. It discusses the locations of the registry where proxy information is found. Link Removed

Revision Note: Advisory published Summary: Microsoft is aware that research was published at a security conference proving a successful attack against X.509 digital certificates signed using the MD5 hashing algorithm. This attack method would allow an attacker to generate additional...

So what's new in it for you? 1. Support for Windows 7 RTM, built and tested with the latest Windows 7 tools. 2. New OpenCL GPGPU benchmarks: complete set of OpenCL benchmarks in addition to the existing CUDA & STREAM versions: 3. New OpenGL GFX benchmarks: complete set of OpenGL benchmarks with...

Hi all. Windows 7 on a dell machine (XPS) Usb netgear wireless fob WG111 v2. Running vista 64x no problem, tried installing same drivers straight up, no-can-do as they are not digitally signed. Tried running in compatability mode Tried disabling crypotography service so it dont check for...