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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>
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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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