Microsoft categorically denied the existence of "back door" in Windows7.

November 20th news Microsoft today categorically denied the existence of "back door" in Windows7. A senior official of the US National Security Agency (hereinafter referred to as "NSA") admitted to the Congress that when the NSA participated in the development of Windows 7, the outside world raised doubts.

A Microsoft spokesperson said, "Microsoft has not, and will not leave a back door in Windows in the future." NSA information security chief management Richard Schaeffer said in a testimony to the US Senate on Tuesday, During Windows 7 development, NSA worked with developers to ensure the security of Windows 7. Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Privacy Protection Agency's Electronic Privacy Information Center, questioned NSA's involvement in operating system development. "NSA has a dual mission: cybersecurity and intelligence gathering."

Rottenberg mentioned yesterday whether the NSA would pressure companies such as Microsoft to leave backdoors in the software code to enable the NSA to track users and collect user communications data. He said that this is obviously a worrying issue, and it is difficult for major software companies to reject the NSA's requirements because the federal government is their important customer.

Microsoft denied the Windows 7 backdoor and clarified the NSA's participation in Windows 7 development. The Microsoft spokesperson said, "NSA mainly discussed with us the Security Compliance Management Toolkit. Related issues." Microsoft released the Windows 7 version of the Security Compliance Management Toolkit last month. The Security Compliance Management Toolkit provides a range of security settings and the tools you need to deploy these settings for businesses, government agencies, and other large organizations.

Microsoft categorically denied that the back door of Windows 7 did not surprise security researchers. Roger Thompson, chief research officer of anti-virus software company AVG Technologies, said yesterday, "I don't think NSA and Microsoft will deliberately leave a back door in Windows 7, because once they are discovered, their reputation on both sides will be enormous. "The impact."

Gartner analyst John Pescatore said today, "This concern has been exaggerated. NSA has a relationship with Microsoft, Cisco and other companies in terms of security configuration standards."

Rottenberg said, "The key to the problem is that the NSA is not the right organization to promote computer security in the private sector, and end users will be at risk. Clipper encryption is an example." Clipper is the NSA's first in 1993. An encryption standard was proposed that allows law enforcement agencies to access data encrypted using this standard. Clipper caused an uproar in the industry and was eventually abandoned.