[nycbug-talk] Fwd: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC

[Mark Saad]

handkar <siraaj at khandkar.net> wrote:
> Anyone else noticed this? Any thoughts?
>
>
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org>
>> Date: 14 December 2010 16:18:27 EST
>> To: security-announce at openbsd.org
>> Subject: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC
>>
>> I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD
>> IPSEC stack.  It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company
>> they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into
>> our network stack, in particular the IPSEC stack.  Around 2000-2001.
>>
>> Since we had the first IPSEC stack available for free, large parts of
>> the code are now found in many other projects/products.  Over 10
>> years, the IPSEC code has gone through many changes and fixes, so it
>> is unclear what the true impact of these allegations are.
>>
>> The mail came in privately from a person I have not talked to for
>> nearly 10 years.  I refuse to become part of such a conspiracy, and
>> will not be talking to Gregory Perry about this.  Therefore I am
>> making it public so that
>>    (a) those who use the code can audit it for these problems,
>>    (b) those that are angry at the story can take other actions,
>>    (c) if it is not true, those who are being accused can defend themselves.
>>
>> Of course I don't like it when my private mail is forwarded.  However
>> the "little ethic" of a private mail being forwarded is much smaller
>> than the "big ethic" of government paying companies to pay open source
>> developers (a member of a community-of-friends) to insert
>> privacy-invading holes in software.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> From: Gregory Perry <Gregory.Perry at GoVirtual.tv>
>> To: "deraadt at openbsd.org" <deraadt at openbsd.org>
>> Subject: OpenBSD Crypto Framework
>> Thread-Topic: OpenBSD Crypto Framework
>> Thread-Index: AcuZjuF6cT4gcSmqQv+Fo3/+2m80eg==
>> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:55:25 +0000
>> Message-ID: <8D3222F9EB68474DA381831A120B1023019AC034 at mbx021-e2-nj-5.exch021.domain.local>
>> Accept-Language: en-US
>> Content-Language: en-US
>> X-MS-Has-Attach:
>> X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Status: RO
>>
>> Hello Theo,
>>
>> Long time no talk.  If you will recall, a while back I was the CTO at
>> NETSEC and arranged funding and donations for the OpenBSD Crypto
>> Framework.  At that same time I also did some consulting for the FBI,
>> for their GSA Technical Support Center, which was a cryptologic
>> reverse engineering project aimed at backdooring and implementing key
>> escrow mechanisms for smart card and other hardware-based computing
>> technologies.
>>
>> My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you
>> aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors and
>> side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OCF, for the express
>> purpose of monitoring the site to site VPN encryption system
>> implemented by EOUSA, the parent organization to the FBI.  Jason
>> Wright and several other developers were responsible for those
>> backdoors, and you would be well advised to review any and all code
>> commits by Wright as well as the other developers he worked with
>> originating from NETSEC.
>>
>> This is also probably the reason why you lost your DARPA funding, they
>> more than likely caught wind of the fact that those backdoors were
>> present and didn't want to create any derivative products based upon
>> the same.
>>
>> This is also why several inside FBI folks have been recently
>> advocating the use of OpenBSD for VPN and firewalling implementations
>> in virtualized environments, for example Scott Lowe is a well
>> respected author in virtualization circles who also happens top be on
>> the FBI payroll, and who has also recently published several tutorials
>> for the use of OpenBSD VMs in enterprise VMware vSphere deployments.
>>
>> Merry Christmas...
>>
>> Gregory Perry
>> Chief Executive Officer
>> GoVirtual Education
>>
>> "VMware Training Products & Services"
>>

Why are his phone numbers in here?

>> 540-645-6955 x111 (local)
>> 866-354-7369 x111 (toll free)
>> 540-931-9099 (mobile)
>> 877-648-0555 (fax)
>>


>> http://www.facebook.com/GregoryVPerry
Also a fun read as it has his personal
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>> http://www.facebook.com/GoVirtual


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