*** FBI Alleged to Have Planted “Back Door” in OpenBSD Encryption | |
YellowSquash User ID: 423542 United States 12/15/2010 02:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do you use Unix? Do you think your computing is secure due to the powerful encryption built into this platform by OpenBSD cryptographic framework? Well think again. It appears that the FBI is alleged to have paid some open-source developers to create exploitable holes in that cryptographic framework that have been there for upwards of 10 years Quoting: acolyte[link to commentsfromleftfield.com] .: Not possible. I am not even going to waste the time to explain why. |
Dante.Destiny User ID: 767699 United States 12/15/2010 03:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
YellowSquash User ID: 423542 United States 12/15/2010 05:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | He alludes to this as a conspiracy because it is really just FUD, but the nature of FUD requires that a complete re-audit of all [link to www.openbsd.org] consistently audited code will be applied in earnest. So, there will either be earth shattering news that the impossible has occurred or everyone will agree that this was what I am calling it...FUD All will be forgotten in a week. : : : : Now back to your regularly scheduled programming... Last Edited by YellowSquash on 12/15/2010 05:30 PM |