Over the past couple weeks there has been a lot of speculation on whether or not there is going to be an “official” backdoor built into Vista. The next iteration of the Windows operating system. First there was the article from the BBC that started the ball rolling. Now there is a protest from Microsoft where they vow that there are no backdoors in Vista. Well, to make things a little more interesting China says, well, maybe. Rather than using American crypto (understandable) there is this…
They have been hard at work developing an encryption chip of their own over the last few years, a chip that was developed by Lenovo and has been approved by the Chinese government. The security module went into production last year and is currently installed in many Lenovo PCs sold in the Chinese market.