Allegations that the FBI may have smuggled back doors or weaknesses into openBSD’s cryptography have created uproar in the security community. Former government contractor Gregory Perry, who helped develop the OpenBSD crypto framework a decade ago, claims that contractors were paid to insert backdoors into OpenBSD’s IPSec stack around 10 years ago. Perry recently warned the openBSD’s Theo de Raadt of the development, years after the event, via an email that de Raadt has published in the spirit of openness…
