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Re: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC


From: news <news () phocean net>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:51:43 +0100

Has I said, that has may true for your organisations hould not be true
for others.

Each organisation has organised has it can. Has small entity may has the
architect design and put the concrete. Has big company most probably has
you said.

It depends. No one except NETSEC has knowing of NETSEC organization.
Anyhas, it has very probability Mr Perry is wright.

Le vendredi 17 décembre 2010 à 13:14 -0500, Gary Baribault a écrit :
I'm an information system's architect, and I do just that, I build the
plan for a system. I select technology and get the overall plan done.
I then hand off the plan to someone who does the design. That person
takes my plan and working with some help from me, gets more physical,
how much bandwidth, memory, CPUs, storage, what DB, specifically how
many modules, what the modules do, what other modules they communicate
with. The designer then hands of his/her design to the programmers.
He/She supervises, and helps with the test cases, but generally does
not see the code. The Architect very rarely sees the code. Check the
lead programmers, and in the case of VPN/IPSec programmers, they are
probably going to be very good programmers with a ton of experience.
Easily capable of this type of thing, but on the other hand, well
knows with a reputation to protect. I'm not saying if this was done or
not, it could be, but probably wasn't.

What you can be sure of is that the actual doing was done much closer
to the programmer than the Architect.

Gary B

On 12/17/2010 12:52 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On December 17, 2010 12:31:37 PM -0500 Larry Seltzer 
<larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:

The one thing Mr. Perry has not done, and which, if his claims
have any
merit at all, he could easily do, since he claims he's no longer
under
NDA,
is post the code that proves that there is a backdoor. After all,
he
supposedly wrote it, along with others.

Actually, he did not say that he wrote code. He said that "Jason
Wright and several other developers were responsible for those
backdoors"


I quote Mr. Perry:

"I left NETSEC in 2000 to start another venture, I had
some fairly significant concerns with many aspects of these
projects,
and I was the lead architect for the site-to-site VPN project
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
developed for Executive Office for United States Attorneys, which
was
a statically keyed VPN system used at 235+ US Attorney locations and
which later proved to have been backdoored by the FBI so that they
could recover (potentially) grand jury information from various US
Attorney sites across the United States and abroad."

Still think he never wrote any and had no knowledge of the code?
What does 
"lead architect" mean?


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