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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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!
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20101215171014.1BB915B73>