Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:36:39 -0500 From: Mike L <jackoroses@gmail.com> To: security-officer@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors? Message-ID: <AANLkTi=aGJR7x=eCE8vmk9T4ZwJ1i0UOdcj1o53e5jBF@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <xeiaei9gsq35.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <AANLkTimQAZ5J5CB4ub7RAQZw93cKD6UxBaYa%2BU6M597Q@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikP-sF8RftgWE0JVbd2%2Bw3QH2yiHZ1gQvgfCDBH@mail.gmail.com> <xeiaei9gsq35.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Reads like an unacceptable response to an issue that seems quite critical. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>wrote: > The FreeBSD security officer team has already written an official > response about this. Please have a look at: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2010-December/005746.html > > Regards, > Giorgos > > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:28:37 +0600, Victor Lyapunov < > fullblaststorm@gmail.com> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Victor Lyapunov <fullblaststorm@gmail.com> > > Date: 2010/12/15 > > Subject: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors? > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > > > Hi folks, > > Recently OpenBSD developer Gregory Perry disclosed information about > > possible backdoors in OpenBSD IPSec stack (see > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/22557) In particular, > > Gregory Perry, who has been working on a OpenBSD -ish implementation > > of IPSec says a number of backdoors have been introduced into the > > code. > > > > As far as I am aware, FreeBSD contains considerable amount of code > > ported from OpenBSD. The question is: was the FreeBSD's ipsec code > > ported from OpenBSD's implementation? If so, what might be the impact > > of this? > > > > Thanks, > > Victor Lyapunov. >
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