On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:42:44 +0000 (UTC) JB <jb.1234abcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > JB <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > http://blogs.csoonline.com/1296/an_fbi_backdoor_in_openbsd > > http://maycontaintracesofbolts.blogspot.com/2010/12/openbsd-ipsec-backdoor-allegations.html Who knows - stranger things have happened - eg the PPP William Simpson affair of some years ago shows the US is prepared to meddle in standards and in trying to stop crypto, as does the Bernstein case. The logical response to open source would however have been to put any holes in firmware, preferably externally exposed firmware - which also helps make it OS agnostic. Other countries have their own CPU designs because they don't trust mass market ones. Similarly during the arguments about crypto one of the memorable positions was "We should allow our crypto chips to be exported, because we'd rather they used our backdoored chips than Chinese backdoored chips" ;) Otherwise you have the problem that any US inserted backdoor will be found by the Chinese, UK, Indian, Israeli and other security services, and probably organised crime rings. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
