[CS-FSLUG] Former contractor says FBI put back door in OpenBSD

[Fred A. Miller]

On 12/16/2010 06:57 AM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:38:44 -0600, Fred A. Miller
> <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>
>> Backdoor code was allegedly added to the IPsec stack 10 years ago,
>> giving the FBI secret ways to snoop on encrypted traffic
>
> This is getting a lot of discussion in the crypto business. Being they
> are all such a cynical lot, there is among those folks a strong belief
> Gregory Perry is not entirely truthful. He names Jason Wright as the
> main culprit in making a back door. Wright responds with factual
> evidence which casts Perry as an attention hound, and points out where
> he did and did not contribute (file names, changelogs, etc.). Perry
> throws out another statement to reinforce his assertions. That was
> where it ended late yesterday (in my part of the world).
>
> There was already a pretty long thread on Slashdot, of course, and
> discussion about how it might be done and not noticed by reviewers.
> It's way over my head. But my own cynicism leads me to believe Perry
> is, at the least, mistaken. 

And, you could be right. I, at this point, have no way of knowing for
sure one way or the other.

Fred

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

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