Security News > 2010 > December > OpenBSD back door claim now in doubt

http://news.techworld.com/security/3253839/openbsd-back-door-claim-now-in-doubt/ By John E Dunn Techworld 16 December 10 The claim that the FBI planted a backdoor in OpenBSD a decade ago has been flatly denied by developer protagonists named as having been involved in the conspiracy in an email sent to OpenBSD founder, Theo de Raadt. Sent by former NETSEC CEO and contractor Gregory Perry, the contentious email named senior OpenBSD developer Jason Wright as having been responsible for inserting the backdoors into the IPSEC encryption implementation in the operating system. Wright has now angrily denied the claim in a public response, stating, “Every urban legend is made more real by the inclusion of real names, dates, and times. Gregory Perry's email falls into this category.” “I will state clearly that I did not add backdoors to the OpenBSD operating system or the OpenBSD crypto framework (OCF). It is a baseless accusation the reason for which I cannot understand,” he added. [...]

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