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    <pre wrap="">Backdoor code was allegedly added to the IPsec stack 10 years ago, 

giving the FBI secret ways to snoop on encrypted traffic

A former government contractor says that the U.S. Federal Bureau of

Investigation installed a number of back doors into the encryption

<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/encryption"><http://www.infoworld.com/t/encryption></a>  software used by the OpenBSD

operating system.

The allegations were made public Tuesday by Theo de Raadt, the lead

developer in the OpenBSD project. DeRaadt posted an email sent by the

former contractor, Gregory Perry

<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2"><http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2></a>, so that the

matter could be publicly scrutinized.

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/former-contractor-says-fbi-put-back-door-in-openbsd-423">http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/former-contractor-says-fbi-put-back-door-in-openbsd-423</a>

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"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."

Thomas Jefferson

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