OpenBSD backdoor claims: code audit begins

[ Thanks to Sam Varghese for this link. ]

"The OpenBSD project has found two bugs during an audit of the cryptographic code in which, it has been alleged, the FBI, through former developers, was able to plant backdoors.

"OpenBSD project head Theo de Raadt told iTWire: "We've been auditing since the mail came in! We have already found two bugs in our cryptographic code. We are assessing the impact. We are also assessing the 'archeological' aspects of this.."

"The mail he was referring to was sent to him on December 11 by Gregory Perry, a former developer with the project, and claimed that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation had, through some other ex-developers, implemented a number of backdoors in the open cryptographic framework used in OpenBSD."

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