During December, ZDNet published an article announcing that the FBI is suspected of having integrate backdoors in OpenBSD . You should know that OpenBSD is a free operating system like Unix which is the triptych " its intransigence on the freedom of software and source code, the quality of its documentation, and the emphasis on safety and integrated cryptography .
The story starts when Theo de Raadt, founder and co-developer of the OS, says December 14, 2010 he received an email stating Gregory Perry the presence of backdoors introduced at the request of federal authorities (FBI). G. Perry has decided to forward the information apparently taken by remorse, but mostly because its NES (N one-Disclosure Agreement - Agreement Privacy thank you) had expired.
The OpenBSD community but then is moved BSD Information and T. de Raadt recommends a code auditing while remaining extremely cautious about the real motivations of G. Perry. Code review would, for now , unremarkable or revealed the presence of any backdoor .
So I contacted one of my colleagues, an expert from the BSD world (even obscure ultra geek:) gave me the feeling that I reproduce below, with his consent:
"The information is correct, it is indeed an email from Theo de Raadt (boss Project) which, when he got wind of the case through the "implementor", initiated a general audit.
But for me, there are several hypotheses, or it is indeed a corruption of one of the developers certainly with an implementation of backdoor or so, there was an attempt on said period and Theo kept the news under the elbow, to use it today because the project must be under pressure from U.S. authorities to implement these backdoors, allowing them to take away with the buzz that has generated the case.
In all cases, although there have been initiatives by the U.S. authorities. "
Singles initiatives or backdoors proved, few people of Security (IT / 's information) will be surprised that such a possibility exists. To be continued ...
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