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Why OpenBSD is can be backdoored and no one is see comeing
From: musnt live <musntlive () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:04:27 -0500
Schmel is sayThere are several problems with this story that seem to have been overlooked. First, if someone was able to alter the crypto source code 10 years ago, you have to assume that in the following 10 years not one person reviewing or editing that code would have noticed a thing. So, the person who did the altering has to be smarter than every other crypto guy who worked on the code. Smart enough that nobody would even notice what he did and smart enough that nothing would be noticed operationally. Not one entity, with all the security personnel those entities employed, would have ever noticed or even inadvertently stumbled across any traffic going to an unexpected place.
Schmehl is cuckoo. Is truth be is that, is someone in US government is make crypto beforehand and is give to the accused, backdoor is pre-programmed and is could be created by is same people who is create Magic Lantern, DCS1000, etc., is could include NSA.
Second, no one editing the crypto code after the alteration would have ever made a single change to the code that would affect the alteration in an adverse way, either rendering it inoperable or causing it to generate traffic that would be unexpected and noticed by watchful eyes.
Schmehl is smelly. Is not know about covert ICMP fragments that is can be reassembled. Is data parsed out of encryption, data too can be inserted into ICMP covert tunnel in fragment to say Google and is sniffer can see traffic. Person watching see ICMP to Google and say "all is goodski"
Now we're talking a genius on the level of Einstein, at least. Of all the code in use, crypto is probably the most scrutinized and is scrutinized by the smartest guys. All of whom were apparently too dumb to notice *anything* unusual in the code at all, if this story is to be believed. And he was able to alter it in a way that made it completely resistant to any future changes in the code.
Is you overlook is fact, coders at NSA could give someone pre-programmed code
Finally, the guy who sent Theo the email obviously lied, or else there's a third Scott Lowe that hasn't yet been unearthed.
Is how you know he lie? You is speculate
It's impossible to prove a negative. So, if you want to hurt or get back at Theo for some reason, the easiest way to do it is claim there's a supersekrit backdoor in the code that no one has noticed for ten years. Now Theo gets to go on a wild goose chase that has no resolution, because you cannot prove there is no backdoor. The best you can do is claim to have thoroughly audited the code and not found one.
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