Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:10:13 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPSEC allegations Message-ID: <20101215171014.1BB915B73@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:06:48 %2B0100." <867hfbkokn.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <30464535.post@talk.nabble.com> <867hfbkokn.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:06:48 +0100 =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> wrote: > [redirected from -hackers to -security] > > Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl> writes: > > http://marc.info/?l=3Dopenbsd-tech&m=3D129236621626462&w=3D2 > > http://maycontaintracesofbolts.blogspot.com/2010/12/openbsd-ipsec-backdoor-= > allegations.html I am looking at this only as an interesting puzzle (any motivations of various parties involved are of no relevance in this narrow context). I have no crypto expertise so my question may make no sense. But can one do a "black box" analysis (that is, no peeking at source code!) to figure out if keys are being leaked etc.? I am thinking something analogous to spectal analysis of signals. For instance, doing fourier analysis on the encrypted white noise or some such. Thanks!home | help
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