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Quicken: Does Intuit have a back door?
Posted on November 11th, 2008 No commentsA Moscow-based password-recovery vendor today accused Intuit Inc. of hiding a backdoor in its popular Quicken personal finance program that gives it — and perhaps government agencies — access to users’ data files.
Intuit called the charges baseless, and said that although there is a way to unlock Quicken’s encrypted data, it’s only used by the company’s support team to help customers who have forgotten their passwords.
In a statement released today, Elcomsoft Co. Ltd., a Russian maker of password-recovery tools, said Quicken versions since 2003 have used strong encryption designed to foil hackers. But those editions also have a backdoor that unlocks the encryption with the 512-bit RSA key that Intuit controls.