Claims of FBI Back Door Installed in OpenBSD

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Claims of FBI Back Door Installed in OpenBSD [computerworld.com]

A former government contractor says that the FBI installed a number of back doors into the encryption 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 e-mail sent by the former contractor, Gregory Perry, so that the matter could be publicly scrutinized.

"The mail came in privately from a person I have not talked to for nearly 10 years," he wrote in his a posting to an OpenBSD discussion list. "I refuse to become part of such a conspiracy, and will not be talking to Gregory Perry about this. Therefore I am making it public."

[J_RaD]

OpenBSD "ultra secure"

they better get patching over there.

[creeking]

were the encryption functions closed source?

[graeme_p]

@creeking, I think its not about the functions, its about using algorithms with a known flaw so they can exploit it later.