Saturday, 26. March 2011
Topic: SECURITY - on March 26, 2011 at 9:37:00 AM CET
OpenBSD Founder Blames Contractor, Not FBI, For Backdoor Plant
The founder of OpenBSD now believes that a firm was probably contracted to put backdoors in the project code
OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has pointed the finger of suspicion at a contractor, and not the FBI, for planting a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD
The founder of the OpenBSD project said that he believes a firm was “probably contracted” by the government to write backdoors in the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework (OCF).
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