Secert Keys in Windows

I thought that this would be an interesting topic to discuss; additional 'secret keys' in windows that allow alteration of the assumed encryption characteristics thus opening the users machine to security compromise including 'back door' access:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY


It is also interesting to note (for further research) that upon a cursory search for information on how to replace the key I came up virtually 'dry' and when looking at the wikipedia article under "References" I noticed the following comment after one of the references about how to change the key:


References

• The Culp-Campbell correspondence
  [*]Analysis by Bruce Schneier
  [*]The reverse-engineered keys
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  [*]Microsoft, the NSA, and You (does have key change how-to) (Internet Archive / Wayback Machine)
  

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