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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:41:35 +0100
From:      Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christian Weisgerber
<naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> wrote:
>
>> They won't be secondary if someone does find a minor bug in the
>> network stack (regardless who introduced it or if it is even related),
>> which will probably happen given the attention this will invariably
>> receive.
>
> Here's the first one:
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=129245633605693&w=2

Like des@ written in the other post even if the backdoor is still
present in the OpenBSD code, IMHO it is very probable that FreeBSD is
unaffected as the FreeBSD OCF implementation has been substantially
modified.

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/leffler_crypto/leffler_crypto.pdf

Either way we will all know for sure in the not distant future...

--Andy



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