Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:47:10 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Linux login security approaches |
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In message <98Dec8.132700gmt.66311@gateway.ukaea.org.uk>, Neil Conway writes:
> This is a required feature for C2 level security certification. > Microsoft used to use the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo in Windows NT because it trigg > ers an unmaskable interrupt.
No, it doesn't trigger an unmaskable interrupt. It generates just a couple of keyboard interrupts for the keypresses. Those are maskable of course.
> This feature will be gone in Windows NT Workstation 5.0 (2000). > Why will the feature be removed ? Thus losing C2 certifiability for > NT?
Vojtech
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