Is Windows 2000 an unsafe platform for online money transaction?
are you using a Windows 2000 platform for your online money transactions? It could be unsafe because there are bugs in the pseudorandom number generator (prng) of the programme. This helps others access your private information including credit card numbers and passwords. prng controls a crucial component of encryption for secure communications through the internet. This includes communications with banks and email servers. prng is supposed to encrypt these communications in such a way that it reaches the correct server and only the recipient computer can decode the information.
Israeli researchers deciphered the working of prng, which allowed them to compute not only the future encryption keys used by the platform but also go in to past encryptions, which helped them access private information. The study notes the fact that the random number generator used by Windows 2000 does not provide